[BC] uplink ERP - RF hazard?

[Craig Bowman]

Being that close to Travelers Rest was the problem!

Craig (Formally from My102.5) Bowman

Durand, MI

 Milton Holladay wrote:
> Over a decade ago, Cohen White gave a presentation about PCBs at the 
> GAB convention. He allowed as how, when he worked at the GE plant 
> where they made __big_tranformers, that they would get into the 
> transformer, into the PCB laden oil, in bathing suits, to do work !
> It is legendary that transmitter operators working regular shifts up 
> on Paris Mountain at Greenville, where there were several UHF and FM 
> stations on short sticks, had to take a vacation to be able to father 
> a child.......
> M
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <nakayle at gmail.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [BC] uplink ERP - RF hazard?
>
>
>>  Well as one of those "in their 60s" engineers, who worked years at
>> 50KW-AM, 100KW-FM and 316-KW TV stations when the only concern about 
>> RF was
>> don't touch a hot RF conductor anymore then you'd touch a hot AC or DC
>> conductor- but no one worried about being near towers or 
>> transmitters. Nor
>> did we worry about lead solder, asbestos insulation or PCB oil then 
>> either.
>> I routinely wiped off the oily film that collected on the 
>> transformers and
>> oil caps and thought nothing of it. I even gave hams oil out of an old
>> transformer for their Heath "Cantenna" dummy loads.  It wasn't until 
>> 1980s I
>> started hearing how dangerous all this stuff was suppose to be.  So 
>> by all
>> rights I should be dead now but I'm still very much alive and kicking!
>>
>> Oh- and as for having kids- it took a vasectomy (not RF) to turn off the
>> baby machine. ;-)
>>
>> - Nat Kayle
>>>
>>> With all these RF hazards around I've wondered how the last high
>>> powered transmitter engineers, most in their 60s, ever survived. The
>>> ones I know are still alive and kicking. They spent 8 hours a day, at
>>> least, bathed in RF. Two stations I've worked for were directional
>>> with an estimated 150Kw ERP.
>
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