[BC] uplink ERP - RF hazard?

[Ronald J. Dot'o Sr.]

I've always wondered about that.  When I was young (about 100 years 
ago) I was an avionic ECM tech in the USAF.  We had X band jamming 
TX's (as well as L and S band) and if you put your hand by a 
radiating antenna you could feel your flesh getting warm.  It seems 
to me that in order to do any damage you would have to elevate the 
temp of the body part and you would feel that and change the 
situation.  I know we all did!

Ron D


----- Original Message ----- From: "Cowboy" <curt at spam-o-matic.net>

>A few seconds would not have hurt anybody, but leaving the thing
>operating in that "docked" position repeatedly for minutes on end
>has similar potential to the sailors standing in front of the ship-radar
>transmitting dishes in WWII. They suffered the same fate, leading to
>the empirical conclusion that high power density concentrations
>at radar frequencies can do damage, and also leads to the
>microwave oven.