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Pasadena residents launch balloons to protest new KRLA towers

Carmine5 said:
Supposedly this new antenna system will allow KRLA greater nighttime power.
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Is it really even worth the effort?
 
Excellent example of people with way too much time on their hands.
 
Did they think about the ecological damage that will be done by thsoe baloons when they land somewhere, get washed out to sea and end up choking a seal or pelican?

Actually as a kid back in Springfield Ohio I used to like seeing the red lights on the radio towers at night and when I was old enough to drive used them to navigate the winding country roads at night. If RF was a real danger the people in those warehouses surrounding the KFI tower would all have three arms and glow in the dark. How about those buildings around the KTNQ/KTLK towers?
 
Has anyone ever actually done a study to see what the effects of AM towers have on people who work and live near them? Just wondering. ???
 
RicoGregg said:
Has anyone ever actually done a study to see what the effects of AM towers have on people who work and live near them? Just wondering. ???
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There were two studies done (that I'm aware of): one by the Koreans which showed that living near AM towers can be hazardous to one's health and another study by the Germans which showed that it isn't hazardous.

Take your pick. (I'll try to find the links).

C5
 
Carmine5 said:
Here are some links:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/08/64579

http://www.emf-forschungsprogramm.de/abschlussphase/4_1_Merzenich.pdf

http://www.rwonline.com/dailynews/index.cgi

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C5

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Well, I suspected that was going to happen.

If you go back through the RW Daily News section for the past two months, you'll come across references to both studies.

Also, as Wired pointed out, there was an earlier Italian study done of people who lived near the Vatican Radio tower site. They concluded that prolonged RF exposure at such near distances was harmful.

No doubt, the folks opposed to the KFWB tower build will reference these studies should the matter come up before a city council.

C5
 
Carmine5 said:
Also, as Wired pointed out, there was an earlier Italian study done of people who lived near the Vatican Radio tower site. They concluded that prolonged RF exposure at such near distances was harmful.

No doubt, the folks opposed to the KFWB tower build will reference these studies should the matter come up before a city council.
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How appropriate. The Vatican radio AM station was running nearly a magawatt, and had multiple lower power shortwave transmitters on the site, too.

KRLA is not going to run hundreds and hundreds of thousands of watts on AM, nor are they going to putup an international short-wave facility with many transmitters.
 
I find interesting that the same people who wine and complain about their health regarding radio towers, are the same folks with a cell phone glued to their ears, and cook their food in a microwave oven while standing in front of it! My family lived right next to the 710 AM towers in the valley from the time they planted them, all lived into their upper 90's cancer free etc.

I'll take five radio towers any day over a bunch uptight whiny neighbors!



Steve
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"No doubt, the folks opposed to the KFWB tower build will reference these studies should the matter come up before a city council."

Oops! I meant to say KRLA tower build.

Actually AM towers have a beauty all their own, as Scott Fybush has shown in his photo calenders.

But as I'm finding out obtaining a new tower site for AM is getting tougher and tougher thanks, in part, to growing opposition from the community and local governments. Land scarcity is another issue.

Salem, at least, has part of the problem licked with their 73 acres. Hopefully, local governments and the FAA will allow them to build what they need.

C5
 
Most radio stations have very limited relocation options, unless a coverage reduction is acceptable. I support Salem's efforts to relocate.

While the environmental concerns are real and commendable, I suggest that use of the site for an AM broadcast station may be a practical way to preserve the open space for future generations. Eventually AM will be history, but until then the AM broadcast use will most likely prevent other development on the site. Obviously the land was in play...

Poster child for this view is the Montecito Heights site. Some local residents complain about the towers because they intrude on the hill, which is one of the few almost undeveloped areas around. Yet the radio station is precisely the reason why the hill has largely been left alone.

Twenty years from now, I think a few towers and a transmitter building can be removed with greater ease than removal of a large subdivison or commercial development.
 
Greg Strickland said:
Most radio stations have very limited relocation options, unless a coverage reduction is acceptable. I support Salem's efforts to relocate.

While the environmental concerns are real and commendable, I suggest that use of the site for an AM broadcast station may be a practical way to preserve the open space for future generations. Eventually AM will be history, but until then the AM broadcast use will most likely prevent other development on the site. Obviously the land was in play...

Poster child for this view is the Montecito Heights site. Some local residents complain about the towers because they intrude on the hill, which is one of the few almost undeveloped areas around. Yet the radio station is precisely the reason why the hill has largely been left alone.
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Speaking of the Montecito site......after the destrucitve fire over two weekends ago, I heard that there was three radio station's transmitters and a few cell phone cell sites there....Only one survived and all the others burned to the ground.....Salem's survived.......
 
The Montecito site is actually a couple of separate sites at Gibralter Peak. Here are some ancient pictures I took about 8 years ago at the KDB/John Franklin site:

http://www.well.com/~dmsml/gib-sb.html

I have an FM translator up there and the buildings (which are cinder block) survived just fine. The site was considered fire safe, and the heat was very high when the fire came through. Many of the "towers" are wood poles and some were damaged, but most stations at the site are still on the air.
 
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