An interesting observation, but also consider this. Last year I
attended the Dayton Hamvention with a fellow who had never been to
Dayton before. This fellow is a local who has been in the hobby
only a few years. He is a professional therapist and has a
Doctorate in Human Behavior. About three hours into the flea
market on the first day he looked at me and stated; "This is the
largest gathering of grossly obese people I have ever imagined
could exist all in the same place!" Sounds funny, but it made me
think! Maybe RF exposure has done that to them? I don't think so!
Maybe frequency of cancer incidences, heart disease, diabetes, and
other illnesses has something to do with the eating habits and
lack of exercise and general well being of many in this hobby we
that all love so dearly......That could be it! Look around. Maybe
we all need to improve our lifestyles and nutrition a bit! In many
cases, quite a bit! 73, -=Rog-K9RB=-
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS <w2cs@ipass.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Vatican to cut broadcasts over ecological
fight
> Dunno about that, Jim...
>
> An awful lot of hams have prostate cancer. It's amazing to me
how often I
> run into a ham on a cancer support list. Either we hams are far
more likely
> to be active on the boards, or we are more likely to attract
cancer.
> Similar observation for pilots. Nothing scientific, of course,
just a
> personal observation.
>
> And there are probably quite a few of us who have prostate
cancer and don't
> know it. I've often wondered whether all those days as a
teenager spent
> operating, at times with homebrewed KW amps that were rather
poorly
> shielded, might some day do me in.
>
> Gary W2CS
>
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> | [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Berry
> | Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:05 AM
> | To: Wes Cosand; towertalk@contesting.com
> | Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Vatican to cut broadcasts over
ecological fight
> |
> |
> | Hi folks,
> |
> | The only people I ever knew that died from exposure to RF were
people
> | who spent all their working days, up until retirement at 50kw
> | broadcast sites. They all died of alcoholism, not of leukemia
or
> | some other disease.
> |
> | Jim
> |
> |
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