Could the real culprit be all those hours spent sitting in front of the rig
eating Twinkies while tuning the bands. I know I tend to survive on junk
food during the typical contest as it is fast an easy, but not healthy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Borowski" <K9RB.Rog@telocity.com>
To: <w2cs@ipass.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Vatican to cut broadcasts over ecological fight
| An interesting observation, but also consider this. Last year I
| attended the Dayton Hamvention with a fellow who had never been to
| Dayton before. This fellow is a local who has been in the hobby
| only a few years. He is a professional therapist and has a
| Doctorate in Human Behavior. About three hours into the flea
| market on the first day he looked at me and stated; "This is the
| largest gathering of grossly obese people I have ever imagined
| could exist all in the same place!" Sounds funny, but it made me
| think! Maybe RF exposure has done that to them? I don't think so!
| Maybe frequency of cancer incidences, heart disease, diabetes, and
| other illnesses has something to do with the eating habits and
| lack of exercise and general well being of many in this hobby we
| that all love so dearly......That could be it! Look around. Maybe
| we all need to improve our lifestyles and nutrition a bit! In many
| cases, quite a bit! 73, -=Rog-K9RB=-
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS <w2cs@ipass.net>
| To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
| Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:40 AM
| Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Vatican to cut broadcasts over ecological
| fight
|
|
| > Dunno about that, Jim...
| >
| > An awful lot of hams have prostate cancer. It's amazing to me
| how often I
| > run into a ham on a cancer support list. Either we hams are far
| more likely
| > to be active on the boards, or we are more likely to attract
| cancer.
| > Similar observation for pilots. Nothing scientific, of course,
| just a
| > personal observation.
| >
| > And there are probably quite a few of us who have prostate
| cancer and don't
| > know it. I've often wondered whether all those days as a
| teenager spent
| > operating, at times with homebrewed KW amps that were rather
| poorly
| > shielded, might some day do me in.
| >
| > Gary W2CS
| >
| >
| >
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
| > | [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Berry
| > | Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:05 AM
| > | To: Wes Cosand; towertalk@contesting.com
| > | Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Vatican to cut broadcasts over
| ecological fight
| > |
| > |
| > | Hi folks,
| > |
| > | The only people I ever knew that died from exposure to RF were
| people
| > | who spent all their working days, up until retirement at 50kw
| > | broadcast sites. They all died of alcoholism, not of leukemia
| or
| > | some other disease.
| > |
| > | Jim
| > |
| > |
| > |
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