[Boatanchors] Safe radiation question

[Rob Atkinson]

Get as close as you want.  The whole thing with "RF Exposure" at HF
and ham power is 100% B.S. concocted by the European nanny state and
like minded bureaucrats here with law and sociology degrees.*  To
their shame, the ARRL has gone along with this scam rather than
demanding FCC provide scientific proof that non-ionizing radiation at
shortwave and medium wave will affect DNA or cause tissue heating.
Guys made and make careers at megawatt shortwave broadcast plants and
never had a problem.  For ham, RF burn is the risk but that's an
injury and not a "health risk."

*It's a scam because junk science researchers with degrees in other
than scientific fields conduct on-going "studies" that are always
inconclusive and end by stating more "research" is needed.  Some have
made careers doing this, mostly over the cell phone scare, but stop
and think:  there are millions and millions of cell phones in use
world wide and have been now for at least 25 years.  Where are all the
brain cancer cases?   If there were something to this, there would be
an increase in brain cancer cases, but statistically, there's no
signature rising above the regular incident noise level.  Any
noticeable rise in any health problem correlated to RF and you'd have
the news media shouting about it night and day.  Where's the hysteria
apart from 15 seconds in a newscast after the WHO issues a new
inconclusive study.

>I tried a Google search but couldn't seem to
>find anything conclusive.

You answered your question.  Now search radon exposure and lung cancer
and observe the search result.   See, there's actually something to
that, provided the level of radon is high enough.

Rob
K5UJ