[Amps] GBR and radiation exposure

[peter.chadwick at Zarlink.Com]

My father in law spent many years working at the big stations at Rugby 
(new - 30kW HF tx's) and old - the GBR site with a few 100kW tx's, at 
Leafield with lots of QRO HF, and on the tropo scatter link from the Isle 
of Wight to Gibralter, which ran several 20kW tx's in the 40MHz region. 
He's 78 this year, and last went to the doctor to have his medical to keep 
his driving licence - otherwise, he's needed to go to  the doctor once in 
the 28 years I've known him. He smokes a pipe, too. Photographs of him at 
work show him as spending time with his feet up, and he's certainly 
carried this characteristic on into retirement. So it might be that 
exposure to lots of RF makes you constitutionally lazy and gives you a 
taste for good beer! Seems to have worked with me, too.......

73

Peter G3RZP