Maybe the common denominator is SITTING, not RF :-)
Tom N4KG
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 "Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS" <w2cs@ipass.net> writes:
> 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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