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Peterborough, ON | reply to macsierra
Re: how close can a cell tower be to a house? said by macsierra: Building code height limits, engineering, city aesthetic codes, etc would make that totally impossible and impractical at best. Even if it did work you would be interfering with vital communications. The same codes would preclude the initial cell tower install then and "vital communications" is open to interpretation.
As more evidence emerges of the harmful effects expect to see more opposition.
This is just the leading edge like the tobacco and asbestos industry bought off experts and suppressed studies a generation ago. |
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:5 | said by peterboro:The same codes would preclude the initial cell tower install then and "vital communications" is open to interpretation. Utilities are not subject to height limitations. |
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Peterborough, ON | said by John Galt: Utilities are not subject to height limitations. In the OP a comparable, or strategic trajectory deflection, in height to block the house at least may be achievable and remember height restrictions are not uniform across North America. |
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:5 | said by peterboro:said by John Galt: Utilities are not subject to height limitations. In the OP a comparable, or strategic trajectory deflection, in height to block the house at least may be achievable and remember height restrictions are not uniform across North America. I agree that there may be other options for the OP in that regard. Utilities are, almost without exception, unrestricted unless there is some overriding issue, such as proximity to airports.
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I wish a cell company would come and install one near my house.
In big cities these are very common, they made to look like drain pipes, church crosses, steeples, anything.
The more of these small cell towers, the lower the power from the larger towers, so people should be happy, if that is what they are concerned about. More RF hits you when you use your microwave or watch your tv. |
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USA
kudos:11 | reply to Pacrat
I wonder if it has camara in it?? (Could be why its so close to houses (To be used as a monitoring point)) |
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Re: how close can a cell tower be to a house? said by John Galt:said by peterboro:The same codes would preclude the initial cell tower install then and "vital communications" is open to interpretation. Utilities are not subject to height limitations. The utilities still have to apply for zoning permission here but they can easily override the town if they say no by going to the state PUC. |
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They could come out today and say with 100% certainty that some percentage of us will get cancer at some point due to this, and most folks would say so what. We ain't gonna get out of this alive. Wireless is now woven into the fabric of society. |
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canada | reply to DonLibes
I'm going to say it's not a micro-cell site; and is more likley a DAS for smart meters, public transport, or some other use...
There's no microwave uplink visable (usually a small "drum" 12-20" across) to link the site to a larger network... Cell repeaters can't operate uplinks across the same antenna sectors used for cell service; nor is it common to feed fibre to a micro-cell site.
As for the safety - I'm a firefighter, a telephone/cellular tech, and have wrenched on and painted race cars for years. I'm getting cancer at some point - there will be no way for me to tell which of my potentially risky exposures, if any, will be responsible... I don't believe there's any great risk from Wifi or cell exposure; but we'll only know for sure in the future, after the technology has been around for 30-40 years... |
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said by DonLibes:1) Are there health risks? No.
said by DonLibes:2) Should we do something and if so what? Nothing you can do except move. |
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kudos:9 | reply to LazMan
said by LazMan:we'll only know for sure in the future, after the technology has been around for 30-40 years... People have been using microwaves routinely since WWII, some 70 years. Electromagnetic waves, which includes microwaves, have been around since...hmmm...the big bang.
Unfortunately, the average tin foil hat wearer easily gets electromagnetic waves confused with ionizing radiation - the stuff from nuclear weapons - and panics; not realizing their walls are full of wires giving off electromagnetic waves that are much stronger when they fall upon the body than tiny antennas placed 30 feet high on a pole. |
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It is very hard to tell from the picture with all the lower level trees but it does look like there is a fiber run to the pole that does not continue past the pole.
It could be CATV, but the inline can looks suspiciously like a fiber amplifier.
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Actually, they are, one cannot build towers above a certain height in the glide slope leading to an airport runway. The height varies with the distance to the runway, i.e. one cannot build a 200 ft tower a .25 of a mile from the end of a runway. |
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:5 | said by Austinloop:Actually, they are, one cannot build towers above a certain height in the glide slope leading to an airport runway. The height varies with the distance to the runway, i.e. one cannot build a 200 ft tower a .25 of a mile from the end of a runway.
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Kennesaw, GA
kudos:1 | reply to nunya
We call them East Cobb Redwoods because they look nothing like the pine trees around them, and they are mostly on the east side of Cobb County (county that I live in). They are mostly near schools and residential areas. One school has two on its property and they stick out like a sore thumb in the grove of pine trees that surround it. I think they actually draw more attention to the fact it is a tower than if it wasn't dressed up to begin with.
I saw a church where the flag pole in the front of it was a T-Mobile tower. just looked like a really thick Flag pole that was needed since it was high and a huge flag... |
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said by pende_tim:It is very hard to tell from the picture with all the lower level trees but it does look like there is a fiber run to the pole that does not continue past the pole.
It could be CATV, but the inline can looks suspiciously like a fiber amplifier.
Fiber amp?? Pretty sure it is a splice box/container, so yes it is fiber, but not an amp. |
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LazManPremium
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canada | reply to whizkid3
said by whizkid3:People have been using microwaves routinely since WWII, some 70 years. Electromagnetic waves, which includes microwaves, have been around since...hmmm...the big bang.
True enough - although the plethora of devices has increased dramatically in the last 5 years (WiFi and Cell) - I agree that EM waves are EM waves, and we recieve more from the sun then man-made sources; but only time will tell if we're right - or if we should have busted out the tin-foil hats, too....
Just remember - living is 100% fatal... No one gets out alive... :P |
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LazManPremium
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canada | reply to cooldude9919
said by cooldude9919:said by pende_tim:It is very hard to tell from the picture with all the lower level trees but it does look like there is a fiber run to the pole that does not continue past the pole.
It could be CATV, but the inline can looks suspiciously like a fiber amplifier.
Fiber amp?? Pretty sure it is a splice box/container, so yes it is fiber, but not an amp. True, there is a lashback there (and a pretty sloppy one at that) with a splice can, but from this angle, it's impossible to say if it's connected to equipment at the pole, or if it's just coincidental... |
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