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aaronread

So yesterday I took a walk with my wife along the new (not-yet-completed) Waterfront Drive in East Providence and wandered past the WSTL tower. I noticed a single-bay FM on a very short pole on a building's rooftop nearby. VERY nearby, actually...it was not 50ft from the road and, because of the hill, it was practically at eye level. Is that W229AN? IIRC they have a CP to move to the actual WSTL tower but I was wondering if I happened to irradiate myself and my wife by choosing that path for a walk!!! ::)
 
aaronread said:
So yesterday I took a walk with my wife along the new (not-yet-completed) Waterfront Drive in East Providence and wandered past the WSTL tower. I noticed a single-bay FM on a very short pole on a building's rooftop nearby. VERY nearby, actually...it was not 50ft from the road and, because of the hill, it was practically at eye level. Is that W229AN? IIRC they have a CP to move to the actual WSTL tower but I was wondering if I happened to irradiate myself and my wife by choosing that path for a walk!!! ::)
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Well... It appears that you and your wife were exposed to 16 MILLION micro watts of unbridled VHF radiation! This means that by 80 years from yesterday, you and the Mrs. will have succumbed -- possibly because of the brutal effects of so much RF exposure! We are talking about 93,700,000 "Hurts" here!

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If you're concerned about radiation, then I suppose dinner reservation at Top of the Hub or a visit to the observation deck at the Empire State Building won't be in your future anytime soon. ;)

Jacko
 
LOL, joke, lads. It was a joke.

Although I imagine that signal must be something of one, too. It's taking what little power it has and transmitting it straight into the side of a hill only 50ft away. Plus the side of College Hill perhaps a quarter-mile away across the river. I've just never seen a FM station that needed to be quite that low in height, to the point where I could be standing on the ground less than 50ft away and be looking DOWN on it.
 
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