[PVRCNC] FCC Fines for RF safety limits

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>From the ARRL website:

FCC proposes to fine broadcasters for exceeding RF radiation limits:
For the first time, the FCC
has proposed a total of $40,000 in forfeitures--$10,000 per
station--against four broadcast licensees for violating the radio
frequency radiation maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limits. The
alleged violations occurred at a multi-user site on Mt Wilson in Los
Angeles, California, where the power density level produced by each
individual licensee was within acceptable limits, but the cumulative
effect exceeded the limits established by the Commission. FCC rules
establish MPE limits for radio frequency exposure from FCC-regulated
transmitters. "If these limits are exceeded due to the cumulative RFR
emissions of multiple transmitters, then all of the licensees whose
transmitters produce power density levels exceeding 5 percent of the
power density exposure limit applicable to their particular
transmitter share responsibility for reducing RF radiation permissible
levels," an FCC public notice said. FCC agents inspecting the Mt.
Wilson transmitter site determined that RF exposure levels in a
publicly accessible area--some 100 feet from a US Post
Office--exceeded MPE
limits by more than 60 percent. The FCC said measurements revealed
that transmitters for four stations--KBIG-FM, KKBT, KRTH-FM, and
KWHY-TV--each produced RF radiation power density levels at
significantly more than 5 percent of the public RF exposure MPE limits
in this area. The FCC alleges that licensees of the four stations
failed to take adequate steps to prevent the public from accessing
areas that exceeded the permissible RF exposure limits. The FCC
reports that the stations now have taken steps to limit public access
to the area where RF radiation exceeds the
MPE limits. 

Any multi-multi's in this boat (doubtful see below)?

Just for kicks I did an RF safety calculation for the 30 db gain/360MW
HAARP array at 10 MHz.
At one mile up, they exceeded the limits by a factor of 20 and at
40,000 feet they were within limits.  I suppose a no-fly zone exists
above them when operational.  Pity the poor migrating birds flying a
few hundred feet above the ground.

73 de Brian/K3KO