The ironic thing about mobile phone mast protests is that the bigger number of masts that go up the weaker the signals you're going to be exposed to are.
i.e. if you're in a good coverage area your mobile uses far less power to connect to the cell mast!
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Also, with regard to the transmission systems for TV and Radio. In modern radio and tv systems operating on FM/VHF/UHF you usually have a network of small repeaters covering a small area with relatively low power signals, much like a cellular telephone network. However, in the old days you had truely scary AM and VHF towers that broadcast using brute force technology i.e. just pumping in huge amounts of power from a single site.
Modern technology is probabally a lot healthier.
There are a few things when it comes to cancer risk:
1) Cancer's now being diagnosed more effectively where as decades gone by it was often undetected and the symptoms may have been attributed to something else. So, rates may not be actually rising, but rather detection.
2) We're sorrounded by known carcenogens, yet we choose for whatever reasons to ignore them.
The fundemental people have to get into their heads is that life is carcenogenic generally. And living will lead to your eventual demise!
[This message has been edited by djk (edited 06-27-2005).]
