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A very sad development...

Please pass on my best wishes to Harry, I shall miss our regular QSOs.

There really is no way to argue intelligently with people when they have convinced themselves that something is true. I have worked with people who have spent their whole working life at transmitting stations where the Volts/metre is so high that I could walk down the sender hall with an illumunated flourescent tube in my hand! They seem OK, most of them going on to long and healthy retirements.

I expect will will meet more of this kind of concern about the "radiation" ( imotive word ) that we produce. I think the best argument is one of "dosage" as in Noise at Work regulations where a small dose of a very high level is as damaging as a long exposure to a lower level. Therefore a short exposure to the short transmissions we make must, by any logical process of thought, be insignificant in comparison with that received by someone living near to a continuously radiating broadcast station.

73, Dave G3YXM.

The manager of the apartment building I live in has just ordered me to stop my antenna experiments. Some of the inhabitants, apparently suffering from the radiation hazard syndrome, had complained. They have seen my activities and despite my assurance that the antenna is removed after every weekend, I have to stop.

This means for me the end of my activity on LF. I regret it very much as it became more and more enjoyable with the improvements of the antenna.