I would be willing to bet they are trying----Doug W7LNB
----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Roth To: n3...@verizon.net ; drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Please no flaming ... Ted, You can't be serious! Obviously a hoax. Beside, the locals have no legal jurisdiction over a federally licensed station. Joe www.wc4r.com www.WilliamsburgWX.com > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:23:39 -0400 > From: n3...@verizon.net > To: Drakelist@zerobeat.net > Subject: [Drakelist] Please no flaming ... > > **I hope that this is a hoax , But if it is not what should we as hams > do ??? > > Please no flaming for the use of bandwidth as I really believe that if > this is true it would be worth taking a stand against > ** > > **Here is something that all hams should be interested in! Who knows > what and who will be next!** > > ted > > > > California County Taking Actions To Silence ALL Ham Activity > > > >From http://www.radiobanter.com/ > > San Luis Obispo county supervisors took drastic and unprecedented action > yesterday by passing an ordinance that would prohibit amateur radio > operators, known as "hams", from operating their transmitting stations. The > measure was put in place to eliminate what officials said were health risks > associated with transmitters located close to children. A legal struggle is > expected. > > By a vote of 4 to 1 with one abstention, the governing board of SLO county > took > action aimed at addressing a recent Stanford University study that > showed a correlation between ham radios and attention de ficit disorder and > hyperactivity in children, as well as nagging reports of interference > caused > by radio hams operating their high-powered transmitters in residential > neighborhoods. > > "Our primary responsibility is to provide a safe environment for > children to > live without the dangerous effects of radio waves constantly bombarding > them > and causing proven neurological and psychological problems," said E. Duane > Nyborg, an attorney who represented the county in several court cases in > the > past year. "Hams are not the only culprits, but they are usually in very > close proximity to children and are no doubt a major contributor to the > health problems we've been seeing. The interference is just the last straw > that convinced the county that something had to be done about it." > > Atascadero > city manager Laura Lopez said that she has seen a tenfold > increase in the number of complaints of interference from ham radio > operators in the last six months. New housing developments which have > dramatically increased the population there and placed homes unusually > close > to each other are the predominant contributing factor. Similar conditions > exist in most of the county. > > "We have radio hams getting into toasters, electric pianos, light bulbs, > everything, from their powerful transmitters that cause all this static. > Many of our citizens can't use basic appliances or watch television because > of all the junk that the hams are broadcasting," she tol d the > Press-Telegram > by telephone. > > Hams can't say they didn't see this coming. They were warned by the county > last year that if they did not submit to a check of their stations by > officials, they would have limits imposed on their operation. Few > consented > to the searches, which most decried as invasive. But nobody expected a > total > ban on transmissions. > > "This is outrageous. You'd better believe we're going to fight back and > win. > This is a totalitarian seizure of our rights that is totally illegal and > can't > stand up," said Frank Wilson, a local ham club president. He said there > were > no formal plans for an appeal yet but preparations were underway. > > Wilson claims that a federal preemption of local zoning ordinances, called > PRB-1, delineates three rules for local municipalities to follow in > accomodating antenna structures such as are used by hams. But Nyborg says > that PRB-1 applies to antenna structures only, and not the transmitters > used > to feed the antennas with a radio signal. "We know all about PRB-1. That's > why we said nothing about antennas. This law is not about antennas. It goes > after the root of the problem, which is the transmitters > that put out huge > signals that get into the brains of our children and short-circuit them > out. > Those are the facts, that's what the scientific evidence points to," he > said > at a news conference called shortly after the county's action. > > In 2008, a grou p of researchers in the school of Environmental Health and > Safety at Stanford published their findings that exposure to ham radio > signals for three hours per day increased the risk of hyperactivity and > related disorders by 10% in children aged 12 and under. This effect was > seen > when a typical ham radio was turned on up to ¼ mile away. The San Luis > Obispo city office says that up to 11,000 children in that city live that > close to a ham radio station. > > The Stanford study showed that frequencies around 3.5, 7, and 14 Megahertz > were the most harmful, but that the danger existed all the way up to 450 > Megahertz and above. > > "We know where the hams > are, that information is easy to get on the > Internet," said former mayor of Paso Robles and current county supervisor > Anthony Wu. "Most of these guys are running one hundred watts of power, > that's > an incredible amount of radiation, and you can't block it out. It enters > your house, it gets into your body and does a lot of damage there." > > Cindy MacMahon, 41, of Morro Bay, soccer mom of two and volunteer at city > bake sales, praised the action by the board of supervisors and looked > forward to radio-free days ahead. "I'm always getting interference on my TV > and stereo that I'm sure is from the guy down the street with his big > tower. > I don't know why they even allow those big, ugly things. I know that my > kids > are harder to control whe n he turns that thing on and I've been saying > that > for three years." > > Most area hams were totally unaware of the new law and Wilson believes > there > will be a revolt when > they discover it. "I will be speaking about it at our > club meeting on Friday. We would normally disseminate the information by > radio, but of course that's illegal for the moment." > > Amateur radio operator Clay Collins of Pismo Beach, was incredulous. "We > provide free emergency communications for the county, we assist the police > department, we help out several times a year on all manner of public > events, > and this is the thanks we get. Someone is badly informed. Next thing you > know, we'll be accused of being responsible for global warming." Another > radio ham who identified himself only as "Deke" said that although a number > of hams were mobilizing to do what they could he was pessimistic. "I > actually know that Nyborg guy. He walks around twelve hours a day with a > cell phone up to his head and yet he's worried about the tiny amount of > radiation from my transmitter." Deke claims that the frequencies of a cell > > phone are close to that of a microwave oven. "You hold a [cell] phone up to > your head, you're cooking your brain slowly," he warned. > > Collins, a ham of fifty-three years and grandfather of six, lives in a > housing tract with a homeowners' association that already regulates ham > radio operators. He says that restrictive H OA agreements exacerbate the > problem. "By prohibiting high antenna towers, [the HOA rules] force me to > place my antennas lower and closer to my neighbors, and force me to use > higher power to make up for the difference in performance." He said that > his > antenna, which is located in his attic, creates far more radiation on the > ground than if it were up on a 50-foot tower-the same type of tower Collins > applied for in 1997 but was denied a permit for. Hams are required by the > FCC to keep track of the amount of radiation from their antennas but > Collins' > station is far below the allowable > limits, he says. "In the next earthquake, > all of my neighbors will be running to my house to send messages out to > their loved ones in other places. I hope they remember this." > > Dick Henley, a member of the Electronic Industries Association who lives in > Ann Arbor, Michigan, claims that most of the interference to appliances, > televisions, and phones can't be blamed on hams going about their normal > activity. "The vast majority of these appliances is insufficiently shielded > against external fields. The slightest interference- even from a garage > door > opener or a cell phone-can disrupt it. In most cases, it's not the ham's > fault." He said that on the contrary, hams are usually the ones who must > suffer with interference from these electronic devices. "Most of the stuff > coming out of China spews interference to radios, but the h ams have just > learned to live with it. Homeowners are totally oblivious to this," he > said. > > Xiang Qang, the principal investigator at Stanford who co-published the > original paper, explained that the radio waves, over the long term, > polarize > cells in the brain tissue and bias a child toward rough or anti-social > behavior. "We saw these children who couldn't sit still, couldn't listen to > a book being read to them, and who had severe reading delays and > disabilities. We started to see that each time a television was turned on > near them, they would actually exhibit worse behavior. So we followed that > path: why the television? Why the television? Then we discovered that is > wasn't the television, but the radiation from it. So we tested many other > types of transmitters and found that the worst ones were ham transmitters > from Icom and Yaesu, with the Kenwoods being marginally better." > > Qang explains that it is the brain's frontal lobe which is most vulnerable > to external radiation due to its > location at the front of the cranium just > behind the forehead, its proximity to the sphenoid wing- the bone at the > temple that houses the pituitary gland- and it's large size. "The frontal > lobe absorbs a lot of radiation and since it governs our behavior, this is > why we think that attention deficit and hyperactivity are the symptoms of > prolonged absorption of high-frequency waves in that region," she said. > > "Nonsense," says Dr. V. Subrahaminayalakshminirayana, head of neurology at > Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. "There is absolutely no conclusive > evidence in the literature to support an ambitious and imaginative theory > that ionizing radiation can deleteriously and negatively affect behavior in > children whether the exposure is at a relatively constant low-level or > periodic." He believes that attention deficit hyperactivity is more > likely a > function of exhaustive over-stimulation of the brain by video > games, > texting, and television viewing. "Ask the Asian parents of your child's > playmate why they never seem to have this problem," he laughed. > > In fact, the Stanford study found that Hispanic children were fourteen > times > as likely to suffer the effects of radio waves than were Asian children. > Hydra Brock-Parker, dean of sociology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a > consultant named in the Stanford study, says that Hispanics live in > depressed parts of a city where houses and apartments are packed closer > together and the possibility of exposure is much greater. "Where are all of > those children going to go to escape radiation from transmitters? > There's no > backyard to play in and besides, you wouldn't want your children playing > outside in those neighborhoods. If you've got, you know, a ham > serial-killer > type next door flooding your apartment with high-intensity radio waves, you > have no choice but to sit > there and get sick," she said. > > Representatives20from Marin, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties were present > at the press conference and were said to be keenly interested in the > implementation of the new law. A similar measure was introduced into the > L.A. County Board's docket on Monday and may be considered at the next > session in May. > > > > > > > > *************************************************************************************** > **Sam Adams said, "'When the people fear the government they have > tyranny, when the government fears the people they have freedom*** > > > > **LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!** > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Explorer 8. Download FREE now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
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