[UK-CONTEST] Re High Power

[Peter Connors, F5VNB]

FYI a new regulation has just been introduced for French amateurs, 
giving them several months to submit details of their eirp on each band. 
If this becomes a Euro-standard, operation in a crowded UK suburban 
environment may become a bit more fraught.

Some of you might find the http://n5xu.ece.utexas.edu/rfsafety/ 
calculator interesting - although it seems to indicate that I should 
have been dead thirty years ago after operating QRO with my head ~25ft 
below a box of 4 x 19el 144MHz yagis. Probably sitting in a null; still 
got my hair.

73 Pete F5VNB/G4PLZ (and G8LEF with those 144 yagis)


Tim Hague wrote:
> I think some people calling for higher powers should beware the `Daily 
> Mail' brigade. I have already seen somewhere a call
> for a requirement to check the radiated field levels from Amateur 
> transmitters in neighbors gardens and houses, Its quite possible
> that a station running 1.5kW to a dipole at 40ft would fall foul of the 
> ICNIRP levels, especially around 28 MHz where the permitted
> levels are more stringent.
> 
> It may be best not to stir up the vocal unknowing!
> 
> Tim M0AFJ