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From: Andy Davidson
Sent: 05 March 2004 07:05
To: Susan Moore (Airwave)
Subject: Re: TETRA TV interference
Susan!!
I cannot believe what I've just heard you say on Southern FM! At a meeting last night I heard good reports of your communications with residents here : to a point.
But how can you say, in response to our concerns simply that Airwave operates 1000 times lower than safety levels? By now you know absolutely, personally, that the levels you and your company cite are to do with heating effects of EM radiation, and that this has bugger all to do with the TV interference — and the health concerns. Most of this argument is about the 17.6Hz component of the signal being emitted.
What about the lady with a baby that needs watching 24/7 who depends on a bio-monito that no longer works because of TETRA interference? Is she or Great Ormond Street reassured that the safety levels of the heating efect of your radiation is 1000 times below recommended safety levels?
What about the brand new TV equipment, videos etc. that hundreds of people have around here that won't work because of your transmissions. How DARE you say to the elderly, who deserve free TV licences because of the public service function of TV, that they must fork out up to £200 to make up for the effects of your system?
At a meeting last night in the shadow of your transmitter, a forest of hands went up to report exactly the same symptoms, unprompted and over a wide area: sleep interrupted at 2 hours, headaches, itchy skin, children having nosebleeds. Why 2 hours sleep? YOU KNOW THIS!! Sleep comes in 2 hour slots, alpha wave sleep for two hours, then beta wave sleep, back to alpha etc. in decreasing cycles. What frequency is beta? Around 16Hz. Well, surprise, surprise.
Sue: be very very clear, this whole thing is bigger than you ever imagined, and people already have significant health problems. I thought it was just me and one or two others. It isn't. And it isn't going to go away.
Andy
From: Susan Moore (Airwave)
To: Andy Davidson
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: TETRA TV interference
Andy
Our transmitter is over a thousand times below health and safety standards. These are set against the ICNIRP guidelines.
I am afraid you are rather misinformed, I have attached a leaflet about the 17hz issue and safety standards.
On the TV interference issues there is nothing we can do - unfortunately - like the H&S standards we dont get to pick and choose. We are told which frequencies to operate on and then have to stick to it, to do otherwise would be a breech of our contract. We cannot change the frequencies, if we were operating incorrectly we would do. OFCOM are quite explicit in the reasons for the interference.
All equipment with regulated frequencies should not interfere with ours.
As I will not be giving you the answers you want me to say, I would suggest that perhaps you contact a member of the NRPB for some guidance on health related issues and a member of the TETRA Industry Group for further in depth information about TETRA and the frequencies it operates on.
Websites - with details of contact details for both of these organisations are:
www.hpa.org.uk
www.tetramou.net
The Home Office also provides information on TETRA at:http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs/tetra.html
Similarly, the following websites might be useful in providing additional, independent guidance on this issue:
World Health Organisation - www.who.int/peh-emf
International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection - www.icnirp.org
Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones - www.iegmp.org.uk
Federation of Electronic Industries - www.fei.org.uk
This programme includes studies into remaining questions about TETRA. http://www.mthr.org.uk.
Regards
Sue
From: Andy Davidson
Sent: 05 March 2004 10:58
To: Susan Moore (Airwave)
Subject: Re: TETRA TV interference
Sue
Well, yes, but which safety standards? These standards have nothing to do with the frequency effects of TETRA. As you illustrate with the MTHR pages on current and future research, not enough is known. Just enough evidence to make spending so much money on research worthwhile.
Please do attach the leaflet by the way, I'll read it.
I'm already familiar with all the other sites you mention. What you don't seem to want to hear is that your mast IS having an effect. You've come into our neighbourhood without consultation, switched on your mast and affected our lives. I was SO surprised to hear that I wasn't alone in losing my sleep, in exactly the same way, at the same time, as many others around here.
If my TV is interfered with because it is defective equipment, if baby monitors are similarly, then is my body also defective equipment? This is real. We sat in a meeting last night 100 yards from the Woodside mast and got headaches and burning on one side of our heads. Maybe you are not sensitive to this radiation, but some of us most definitely are.
It isn't good enough to say that you're doing nothing wrong. Something is very plainly wrong here. It's not about contracts and correct specifications and money and business. It is about the lives of many ordinary people.
I've looked at your recommended sites. Of course they are all 'respectable' whereas ordinary people always are misinformed, misguided and wrong. Like we were on Thalidomide, asbestos, CJD and tobacco. So look at our sites and read all those 'discredited' papers and anecdotal evidence. Start at www.worthingnotetra.org.uk and rubbish it all by all means, but don't dare to tell us we are not experiencing very real health problems right here and right now.
Andy
(on receipt of the O2 attachment)
Sue: Thank you.
So not being able to see the cause means that there are no effects?
That, again, was the claim over many years for tobacco, prions (CJD), asbestos, Thalidomide...
If it's illusory, then just tell me to go to sleep loudly enough and it will happen?
I gather that in Littlehampton, similar symptoms appeared during Airwave testing, disappeared when switched off, and reappeared when switched on again.
There is something missing here, and it's time we stopped quoting experiments on dead chicken brains (I don't have one) and Professor Challis, and listened to Dr Hyland and others and started thinking for ourselves.
Andy
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