[Boatanchors] The Bad Effects of Years of RF exposure

[Glen Zook]

Well, for the about last 40 of the slightly over 50 years that I have been licensed, I have normally run a linear amplifier and none on me, at least that anyone has noticed!  Now I don't run more than about 100 watts output on the higher frequency bands except for 432 MHz where I run about 150 watts output.

I did acquire rheumatoid arthritis.  However, that is caused by an allergic reaction and not by r.f.  My "lucky" item was a particular cleaning agent that a new janitorial service started using at my place of employment about 8 years ago.  It only took a couple of exposures to the chemical.  RA can be caused by anything to which a person suddenly becomes allergic.  Someone can walk outside on day and have an allergic reaction to grass and "acquire" RA.

Now a financial "side effect" is probably a slightly higher electric bill, but even that increase is basically minimal (much less than the bill for air conditioning here in the Dallas, Texas, area).

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Mon, 3/15/10, bill bryant <wa5jul at yahoo.com> wrote:

Any one know the long term negative health issues from running a killowatt station/side affects?