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No one's is perfect, I imagine, but mine is very good. I manage to work longer hours than many half my age, take substantial forest hikes with my much-younger wife and three young children and have no trouble keeping up.

One station where I worked, WEAM 1390 in Arlington, Virginia, was surrounded by suburban homes directly abutting the antenna field. Many, many stations are like that. Nobody seemed to experience any negative effects. And the plant life in the antenna field, with its roots in direct contact with the RF current-carrying radial ground wires, was always thriving. Standing in the field holding a 4-foot fluorescent light connected to nothing, there was enough RF energy in the air to light the bulb.
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Asanoha 3mo ago

Well that’s good! Hmm that’s crazy about the bulb! From the research I’ve done there are definitely people who are more or less sensitive to EMF/RF than others. I wonder if it’s like just 10-20% of the population that is severely affected and that’s why most people don’t have an issue with any of it. And the small issues most people have are chalked off to other stuff. I believe you saw what you saw, but there is no way holding a phone against your head is good. There are studies of tumors in phone dominant sides of head and women’s breasts where they keep phone tucked in bra while jogging, also noticeable increase in cancers and neurological issues in area with big towers put up. I imagine the issue is ultimately like lead in paint or asbestos in building materials. It didn’t kill off humanity but eventually symptoms caused got worse and worse over the years. I mean doctors use to smoke in their offices 😁

Anyways I hope it’s all a big nothing burger because most of us are bathing in this shit!

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Kevin Alfred Strom 3mo ago

I agree with you that holding a transmitting antenna against your head for long periods is a bad idea, if the transmit wavelength is comparable to body size or organ size -- generally from 100 MHz up. (That can cause unnatural heating and possibly damage tissues.) That's because of the inverse square law, which tells us that field strengths go up 6 decibels every time you halve the distance from the antenna. If your phone is 24 inches from you while using speakerphone, do the math compared to holding it a twentieth of an inch away when not on speakerphone -- it comes out to be a 54 dB increase. That means holding a 3-Watt phone next to your head is the equivalent of a 753,000-Watt phone two feet away! Huge difference.