[Wswss] Fw: [VHF] Now here's a ditty fer ya'!
Malcolm Levy
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Wed Apr 8 10:22:54 EDT 2009
The original date of the article was April 1st
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Subject: Re: [Wswss] Fw: [VHF] Now here's a ditty fer ya'!
Well for the time being or until a resident ham can validate the story, I am
going to have to call BS on this article. I can not locate any info on the
SLO County BOS's website and meeting minutes. It appears that a regular
meeting was held on March 31, and no mention of the articles contents was
noted.
73
John
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 8:52:36 AM
> Subject: [VHF] Now here's a ditty fer ya'!
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> Here is something that all hams should be interested in! Who knows what
> and
> who will be next!
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> California County Taking Actions To Silence ALL Ham Activity
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>>From http://www.radiobanter.com/
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> San Luis Obispo county 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 deficit 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 told 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
> accommodating 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 group 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 B< 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 when 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 hams 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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