RE: OT: Mobile Phone Masts

["Eamon O'Gorman" <eamonogorman@xxxxxxx>]

In response t  Micheals query, In Ireland, we do use Electricity Pylons as
mobile phone masts (and farm sheds,churches,pubs, etc). I work as a radio
planner for one of Irelands GSM operators, and as part of my job, I have
put
BTS's on some of the above sturctures. We even had one customer (with a lot
of pull) insist that we put a BTS on in her house as she had no coverage.
The pylon issue, is very handy in some cases, but height can be a
dis-advantage as much as an advantage (we try not t  build high sites
anymore).

As far as the "radiation" is concerned, If you go int  the centre
of any
city (take london for example, as I worked there for a good few years),
every high building has dozens of Microwave radio's on top of them, and
this
is not a recent thing, these things have been is use for over longer than
I've been around. I used t  maintain a hub site on top of a building in
London. All the dishes were mounted on the surrounding walls of the
building
managers rooftop flat..... We've had tv and radio transmitters for the last
70-80 years, and nobody seems t  object t  these (even though they transmit
at much higher levels than GSM sites).

Here is one for thought, the closer you are t  a BTS, the lower power
your phone transmits, so It may be better t  have in your back
garden.......
At the moment, I'm trying to get planning for a mast about 300yds from my
house.....

Eamon

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 July 2001 12:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Mobile Phone Masts


This always gets me: it's a physics fundamental isn't it? Radiated field
strength is inversely proportional t  distance from emmiter..

The power going each way in a mobile phone call must be about the same.
Sure
the base station has much bigger antennae but still, they can't be pumping
out more than five or six times what a handset does...

And yet people think the masts are a terrible health risk, but clamp a
phone
flat a against the side of their head.....

I can see a pile of transmitters a few hundred metres away on the hilltop.
They bother me a lot less than the handset itself does!

or have I, again, got my physics all skewwiff?

Ian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Mc Aree" <michael.mcaree@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Mobile Phone Masts


> You techy people may know, buy why can't they put masts on top of
> Electricity Pylons? Benefits are that they can be quite high and can
have
no
> complaints from the fools who live under them, as opposed t  on the
roof
of
> a two story building with the local community going nuts about it!
>
> Michael
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