I am certain that electromagnetic radiation has effects on the human body, but I do believe that electromagnetic radiation is not the major cause of the increase in cancer deaths as stated by Dr. This standard contains an appendix listing numerous references on the biological effects of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields. I would also appreciate the comments of other amateurs as well as physicians on this subject. I also noted Dr Milham's study of ham radio operators vs cancer statistics. The press report was undoutably mangled, but as a sometime radio amateur, I can add some questions and comments.
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I don't mean to imply that there is no risk associated with the high fields around a radio transmitter, after all, you can cook hot-dogs by putting them inside the antenna impedence matching coils, but there are other possible causes of the small increase in cancer risk that was observed. A good experiment to test these risks would be to look at the cancer rate among model railroaders. Douglas Jones Report problems with the web pages to the maintainer .