[TowerTalk] Planning for the next move...

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 7 19:32:29 EST 2018


On 2/7/18 11:42 AM, Paul Booth wrote:
> I have an interesting story;  I moved QTH from the suburbs to one in the 
> mountains.  While building the new location, I kept the original house 
> but ham radio fell silent due to all the work I was doing in the new 
> place.  A real estate agent representing potential buyers for a house 
> behind us was concerned about my roof top yagi which I had left there.  
> They looked into radiation issues and exposure to their young kids and 
> were concerned.   They asked me to take it down.  It was not high on my 
> priority so at first I said no.  Then they offered me $5K to take it 
> down on their closing of the house. At that point I said okay and spent 
> an hour taking it down.  Of course the $5k went back into ham radio.
> 


You didn't just show them your analysis of radiated field strengths and 
show that you were 20 dB under the uncontrolled exposure limit?
(in comparison to the EM radiation from the cell phone in their 
pocket/purse)




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