[South Florida DX Association] Totaly Rediculus
Sherri Brower
w4stb at bellsouth.net
Wed Apr 8 15:10:07 EDT 2009
That was my first thought also.
I even checked the minutes of the meeting for the county supervisors for
all of March and April!!
Sherri, W4STB
Bill Dzurilla wrote:
> 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
>> =======================================================
>>
>> THIS IS ABSOLUTLY REDICULOUS!
>> ________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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