Danger or not radio masts?
Hi!I am going to move to country side,it’s lovely and quiet only problem is i will be about 200 meters from radio mast.Is it dangerous?Was very difficult to get mortgage and now we would be devastatet to loose the house only becouse this mast near by.But from the other hand what people says about masts it’s scary.WHAT TO DO?
Now let’s have a look at this in perspective: OK, radio transmitters and mobile phone masts have been about for years now, and let’s be honest, if there was REALLY any problem with them, they’d have been banned, full stop - but what about the likes of us, right here, indoors: I’m using a “wireless” keyboard and a “wireless” mouse on two PCs, I’ve got so many remote controls I could build a small house with them all - even the stair-lift has one! - and all that’s going on even before I put something in the microwave cooker or use one of the three mobile phones or the BT cordless phones - then there are all the radio signals being beamed at us from satellites - be they for TV channels or G.P.S. systems - and then you worry about a mast which, if truth be known, transmits ’sideways’ in order to cover as wide an area as possible as opposed to downwards (i.e. on you!) which would only cover a very small area. I really think you have very little with which to concern yourself - enjoy your new house in the country and stop worrying!
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You have nothing to worry about from the mast provided you don’t get close enough to touch it (though it will impact on your view).
There is no evidence of non-thermal effects from non-ionising radiation and it isn’t going to be powerful enough to heat anything a significant amount 200 m away (workers on the transmitter may have something to worry about if it isn’t turned off when they work on it but not you).
The idea that non-ionising radiation has negative effects on people at low levels is nonsense on the same level as the idea that power lines cause cancer (i.e. pure quackery).
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela…
http://www.skepdic.com/emf.html
http://depletedcranium.com/?p=517