Interesting article about how they hide phone transmitters

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Interesting article about how they hide phone transmitters

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I rather liked the pine tree transmitter stack. Much classier than the antennae on a concrete pole they have over here.

I do think that there is a lot of unjustified angst and concern over the potential health issues attributed to RF emmissions. There are ionising RF sources, and there are transmitters with enough power to create electrical fields that do some pretty interesting stuff, but unless someone willingly (they are all marked and often fenced off) or unwittingly (some people don't read) exposes themselves to one of these sources, they should have no need for concern. Unless my memory fails me, it is not until you get up into the mid to high frequency UV that the wavelength is short enough to significantly interact with the body, damaging DNA.
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