[Wswss] [Mw] Fw: [VHF] Now here's a ditty fer ya'!
N6FD
n6fd at mchsi.com
Thu Apr 9 23:07:01 EDT 2009
What was worrisome is that it is entirely plausible for that area. This
area is one of the reasons that California is called the granola state:
all the fruits, nuts and flakes end up here. My brother is a ham in
that area and has seen this kind of thinking on a lot of other subjects
from the people there.
73, Erich N6FD
Kent Britain wrote:
> You can take a deep breath, it's not true.
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> Kent WA5VJB
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> PATRICK COKER wrote:
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>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: "W6OAL at aol.com" <W6OAL at aol.com>
>> To: vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 8:52:36 AM
>> Subject: [VHF] Now here's a ditty fer ya'!
>>
>> Here is something that all hams should be interested in! Who knows what and
>> who will be next!
>>
>>
>> California County Taking Actions To Silence ALL Ham Activity
>>
>>
>> >From http://www.radiobanter.com/
>>
>> 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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>> when the government fears the people they have freedom
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