[South Florida DX Association] Totaly Rediculus

[Bill Dzurilla]

This was an April Fool joke, not true.

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Norman Alexander <npalex at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Norman Alexander <npalex at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [South Florida DX Association] Totaly Rediculus
> To: "SFDXA" <SFDXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 2:36 PM
> The following is a great example of how weird a left wing,
> socialist society can be -  hopefully the next earthquake
> drops California into the Pacific.
> 
>  Regards,
> Norm W4QN
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> 
> THIS IS ABSOLUTLY  REDICULOUS! 
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>  Subject: California County Taking Actions To Silence  ALL
> Ham Activity
> 
> >From  www radiobanter com
> 
> 
> 
> San Luis  Obispocounty supervisors took drastic  and
> unprecedented action 
> yesterday by passing an ordinance that would  prohibit
> amateur radio 
> operators, known as "hams", from operating their 
> transmitting stations. The 
> measure was put in place to eliminate what  officials said
> were health risks 
> associated with transmitters located  close to children. A
> legal struggle is 
> expected.
> 
> By a vote of 4 to  1 with one abstention, the governing
> board of SLO county 
> took action aimed  at addressing a recent Stanford
> University study that 
> showed a correlation  between ham radios and attention de
> ficit disorder and 
> hyperactivity in  children, as well as nagging reports of
> interference caused 
> by radio hams  operating their high-powered transmitters in
> residential 
> neighborhoods.
> 
> "Our primary responsibility is to provide a safe 
> environment for children to 
> live without the dangerous effects of radio  waves
> constantly bombarding them 
> and causing proven neurological and psychological
> problems," said E. Duane 
> Nyborg, an attorney who represented  the county in several
> court cases in the 
> past year. "Hams are not the only  culprits, but they
> are usually in very 
> close proximity to children and are  no doubt a major
> contributor to the 
> health problems we've been seeing. The  interference is
> just the last straw 
> that convinced the county that  something had to be done
> about it."
> 
> Atascadero city manager Laura Lopez  said that she has seen
> a tenfold 
> increase in the number of complaints of  interference from
> ham radio 
> operators in the last six months. New housing  developments
> which have 
> dramatically increased the population there and  placed
> homes unusually close 
> to each other are the predominant  contributing factor.
> Similar conditions 
> exist in most of the  county.
> 
> "We have radio hams getting into toasters, electric
> pianos,  light bulbs, 
> everything, from their powerful transmitters that cause all
>  this static. 
> Many of our citizens can't use basic appliances or
> watch  television because 
> of all the junk that the hams are broadcasting," she 
> tol d the Press-Telegram 
> by telephone.
> 
> Hams can't say they didn't  see this coming. They
> were warned by the county 
> last year that if they did  not submit to a check of their
> stations by 
> officials, they would have  limits imposed on their
> operation. Few consented 
> to the searches, which  most decried as invasive. But
> nobody expected a total 
> ban on  transmissions.
> 
> "This is outrageous. You'd better believe
> we're going to  fight back and win. 
> This is a totalitarian seizure of our rights that is 
> totally illegal and can't 
> stand up," said Frank Wilson, a local ham club 
> president. He said there were 
> no formal plans for an appeal yet but  preparations were
> underway.
> 
> Wilson claims that a federal preemption of  local zoning
> ordinances, called 
> PRB-1, delineates three rules for local  municipalities to
> follow in 
> accomodating antenna structures such as are  used by hams.
> But Nyborg says 
> that PRB-1 applies to antenna structures  only, and not the
> transmitters used 
> to feed the antennas with a radio  signal. "We know
> all about PRB-1. That's 
> why we said nothing about  antennas. This law is not about
> antennas. It goes 
> after the root of the  problem, which is the transmitters
> that put out huge 
> signals that get into  the brains of our children and
> short-circuit them out. 
> Those are the  facts, that's what the scientific
> evidence points to," he said 
> at a news  conference called shortly after the county's
> action.
> 
> In 2008, a grou p  of researchers in the school of
> Environmental Health and 
> Safety at Stanford published their findings that exposure
> to ham radio 
> signals for  three hours per day increased the risk of
> hyperactivity and 
> related  disorders by 10% in children aged 12 and under.
> This effect was seen 
> when  a typical ham radio was turned on up to ¼ mile away.
> The San Luis 
> Obispo  city office says that up to 11,000 children in that
> city live that 
> close  to a ham radio station.
> 
> The Stanford study showed that frequencies  around 3.5, 7,
> and 14 Megahertz 
> were the most harmful, but that the danger  existed all the
> way up to 450 
> Megahertz and above.
> 
> "We know where  the hams are, that information is easy
> to get on the 
> Internet," said  former mayor of Paso Robles and
> current county supervisor 
> Anthony Wu.  "Most of these guys are running one
> hundred watts of power, that's 
> an  incredible amount of radiation, and you can't block
> it out. It enters 
> your  house, it gets into your body and does a lot of
> damage there."
> 
> Cindy  MacMahon, 41, of Morro Bay, soccer mom of two and
> volunteer at city 
> bake  sales, praised the action by the board of supervisors
> and looked 
> forward  to radio-free days ahead. "I'm always
> getting interference on my TV 
> and  stereo that I'm sure is from the guy down the
> street with his big tower. 
> I  don't know why they even allow those big, ugly
> things. I know that my kids 
> are harder to control whe n he turns that thing on and
> I've been saying  that 
> for three years."
> 
> Most area hams were totally unaware of the  new law and
> Wilson believes there 
> will be a revolt when they discover it.  "I will be
> speaking about it at our 
> club meeting on Friday. We would  normally disseminate the
> information by 
> radio, but of course that's  illegal for the
> moment."
> 
> Amateur radio operator Clay Collins of Pismo  Beach, was
> incredulous. "We 
> provide free emergency communications for the  county, we
> assist the police 
> department, we help out several times a year  on all manner
> of public events, 
> and this is the thanks we get. Someone is  badly informed.
> Next thing you 
> know, we'll be accused of being responsible  for global
> warming." Another 
> radio ham who identified himself only as  "Deke"
> said that although a number 
> of hams were mobilizing to do what they  could he was
> pessimistic. "I 
> actually know that Nyborg guy. He walks  around twelve
> hours a day with a 
> cell phone up to his head and yet he's  worried about
> the tiny amount of 
> radiation from my transmitter." Deke  claims that the
> frequencies of a cell 
> phone are close to that of a  microwave oven. "You
> hold a [cell] phone up to 
> your head, you're cooking  your brain slowly," he
> warned.
> 
> Collins, a ham of fifty-three years and  grandfather of
> six, lives in a 
> housing tract with a homeowners'  association that
> already regulates ham 
> radio operators. He says that  restrictive H OA agreements
> exacerbate the 
> problem. "By prohibiting high  antenna towers, [the
> HOA rules] force me to 
> place my antennas lower and  closer to my neighbors, and
> force me to use 
> higher power to make up for  the difference in
> performance." He said that his 
> antenna, which is located  in his attic, creates far more
> radiation on the 
> ground than if it were up  on a 50-foot tower-the same type
> of tower Collins 
> applied for in 1997 but  was denied a permit for. Hams are
> required by the 
> FCC to keep track of the  amount of radiation from their
> antennas but Collins' 
> station is far below  the allowable limits, he says.
> "In the next earthquake, 
> all of my  neighbors will be running to my house to send
> messages out to 
> their loved  ones in other places. I hope they remember
> this."
> 
> Dick Henley, a member  of the Electronic Industries
> Association who lives in 
> Ann Arbor, Michigan,  claims that most of the interference
> to appliances, 
> televisions, and  phones can't be blamed on hams going
> about their normal 
> activity. "The  vast majority of these appliances is
> insufficiently shielded 
> against  external fields. The slightest interference- even
> from a garage door 
> opener or a cell phone-can disrupt it. In most cases,
> it's not the ham's 
> fault." He said that on the contrary, hams are usually
> the ones who must 
> suffer with interference from these electronic devices.
> "Most of the stuff 
> coming out of China spews interference to radios, but the h
> ams have just 
> learned to live with it. Homeowners are totally oblivious
> to this," he  said.
> 
> Xiang Qang, the principal investigator at Stanford who 
> co-published the 
> original paper, explained that the radio waves, over the 
> long term, polarize 
> cells in the brain tissue and bias a child toward  rough or
> anti-social 
> behavior. "We saw these children who couldn't sit 
> still, couldn't listen to 
> a book being read to them, and who had severe  reading
> delays and 
> disabilities. We started to see that each time a 
> television was turned on 
> near them, they would actually exhibit worse  behavior. So
> we followed that 
> path: why the television? Why the  television? Then we
> discovered that is 
> wasn't the television, but the  radiation from it. So
> we tested many other 
> types of transmitters and found  that the worst ones were
> ham transmitters 
> from Icom and Yaesu, with the  Kenwoods being marginally
> better."
> 
> Qang explains that it is the brain's frontal lobe which
> is most vulnerable 
> to external radiation due to its  location at the front of
> the cranium just 
> behind the forehead, its  proximity to the sphenoid wing-
> the bone at the 
> temple that houses the  pituitary gland- and it's large
> size. "The frontal 
> lobe absorbs a lot of  radiation and since it governs our
> behavior, this is 
> why we think that  attention deficit and hyperactivity are
> the symptoms of 
> prolonged  absorption of high-frequency waves in that
> region," she  said.
> 
> "Nonsense," says Dr. V.
> Subrahaminayalakshminirayana, head of neurology at 
> Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. "There is
> absolutely no  conclusive 
> evidence in the literature to support an ambitious and 
> imaginative theory 
> that ionizing radiation can deleteriously and  negatively
> affect behavior in 
> children whether the exposure is at a  relatively constant
> low-level or 
> periodic." He believes that attention  deficit
> hyperactivity is more likely a 
> function of exhaustive  over-stimulation of the brain by
> video games, 
> texting, and television  viewing. "Ask the Asian
> parents of your child's 
> playmate why they never  seem to have this problem,"
> he laughed..
> 
> In fact, the Stanford study  found that Hispanic children
> were fourteen times 
> as likely to suffer the  effects of radio waves than were
> Asian children. 
> Hydra Brock-Parker, dean  of sociology at Cal Poly San Luis
> Obispo and a 
> consultant named in the  Stanford study, says that
> Hispanics live in 
> depressed parts of a city  where houses and apartments are
> packed closer 
> together and the possibility  of exposure is much greater.
> "Where are all of 
> those children going to go  to escape radiation from
> transmitters? There's no 
> backyard to play in and  besides, you wouldn't want
> your children playing 
> outside in those  neighborhoods. If you've got, you
> know, a ham serial-killer 
> type next door  flooding your apartment with high-intensity
> radio waves, you 
> have no  choice but to sit there and get sick," she
> said.
> 
> Representatives20from  Marin, Ventura, and Los Angeles
> counties were present 
> at the press  conference and were said to be keenly
> interested in the 
> implementation of  the new law. A similar measure was
> introduced into the 
> L.A. County Board's  docket on Monday and may be
> considered at the next 
> session in  May. 
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