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[qualin]

To Tolivac

I was close to the FM transmitter, but I didn't notice any reflected power on the meters, so who knows. There was a lot of RF in the room though because engineers had put a faraday cage in the transmitter rooms. (The transmitters were located next to the studio, which is a little unusual, but the station dated back to 1949.)

BTW, Who these days uses a walkman? Except hipsters....

I once had a brief chat with a hipster who liked the "Organic" feel of cassettes and liked how they gave his music "Substance" ... I wanted to slap him...

I still have my old walkman, but I don't use it anymore. My smartphone holds 32 GB of MP3's. I keep it around as a kind of a keepsake.

Hard to stay on topic with these responses.

 

[mrboilwash]

The Swedes keep pretty much distance to high voltage powerlines for their schools and kindergardens, because children are more sensitive to EMFs than adults.
On the contrary in Germany a school building could be placed directly under a high tension line. Caught that on TV yesterday.

 

[tolivac]

FM radiation--were there any open covers on the transmitters-esp the RF power amps-this could cause RF leakage.I have visited and worked with a few sites where the transmitters were at the same site as the studio-many times the station has no choice-property cost for two plants may be too expensive.ESP AM tower feilds.-and the lower end of the AM band-the larger the site has to be--tower spacing and tower height.I was impressed with new Harrison consoles at one combined plant-they had their AM and FM transmitters at the same site-you could throw open the microphone gains and no transmitter noise other than the sounds the mic picked up.impressive RF sheilding and grounding in those consoles.Most radio station consoles are built with location next to transmitters in mind.
Walkman-aren't those antiques now-esp the ones that play "hissettes" I mean cassettes?Somewhere I have a couple knocking about.Haven't played them in years.You have to ask that listener how his cassettes and casssette player gives music "substance" and "organic"?I do have a Radio Shack "Walkman" type CD player-again haven't used it in a few several years.These have been replaced with a Blu-Ray-DVD-CD player "Walkman" movie player.Great for those long airplane rides-and no one bothers you!
For those that don't like powerlines-our plant is fed with 115Kv three ph to the site substation-this steps the voltage down to 4160V-and 1600A per phase!3 big GE transformers!The deer like to lay under these lines!Wonder what it would do to them?

 

[qualin]

To Tolivac

I'm not sure.. Guess I wasn't looking hard enough for open covers.

Thanks for your input!

 

[jetcone]

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all the comments! Life is risk thats all there is too it.