[BC] Neighbors fear radio tower near Utica, NY is making them ill

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

If they are getting RF burns, there might be an installation problem like I saw at an unnamed FM in Oregon. The guy wires were not broken up where they passed the FM antenna. If you touched a guy wire where it connected to an anchor, your hand would be severely burned. Presumably, this would happen every wavelength up the wire. There were other symptoms that all was not right in radio-land. There was a lot of HUM in the audio because the Audimax or Volumax was being zapped.

There are other things in the article that don't make sense though. RF doesn't affect "radiation" detectors. Perhaps they measured the field with a FIM or bolometer? You don't get any FM reception on a Geiger counter!

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Carter" <broadcast at hidden-valley.com>
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:28:36 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [BC] Neighbors fear radio tower near Utica, NY is making them ill

No disrespect intended, but I must ask: Why?

I can get maybe a pacemaker or AICD giving trouble, but why would it
affect unaltered humans?

These folks are claiming RF burns.  For this to have happened, there
should be sparks jumping off the ends of their forks, etc.

Jeff