Another controversial Tel$tra phone tower given the go ahead

Not that much of one 🙂 300kHz is long wave, below AM radio.

@caf – I was looking at a similar item of confrontation as a basis for my commentary using RPS 3 as the tower standard.

Perhaps there is a discrepancy between the transmission frequency of the tower and the transmission frequency of mobile handsets ?

My take on the matter…someone correct me if I am wrong.

Its not a Telstra tower, even though they are probably building it. ( I am not a fan of Telstra but they do need to be defended in this case)

It is a 2100Mhz 3G tower originally planned for “3” (Hutchinson), however Telstra became involved when it bought a half share of the infrastructure “3” was installing in the main capitals of Australia. Telstra had no 3G presence as they were mainly rolling out CDMA upgrades at the time. The tower belongs to 3GIS (Hutchinson/Telstra). It is a low power tower, which is why there are so many in Canberra (like the ones on roundabouts) They cover small areas with high speed data and phone.

Pretty sure Telstra would like to get out of this partnership as they now have NextG up and running on their older towers. nextG is cheaper to set up as fewer towers are needed and most of the infrastructure was already there.

It is Hutchinson / 3GIS that should be getting grilled over these towers..

Yeah, but in all honesty, who takes any notice of Pratt anymore?

Whenever I see him bleating on TV, I use it as a good excuse to walk away and get another cup of tea.

I know of people who live next door who have complained about the ugliness of it. To back up their outcry they have used laughingly; “What about the children?” arguement. Isn’t Sasella a member of the Tuggeranong Community council and a Lib eral member? Thus the protestatons from Pratt.

Why is Jonathon who champions for better mobile coverage in Gunaghlin worried about what happens on the other side of the country?

*dons rival specialist beret*

Mobile phone transmissions are well above 300kHz, in Australia between about 800MHz and 2100Mhz.

*removes beret, despite it looking quite fetching*

What’s the hazard area for those (microwave) frequencies?

*dons specialist cap*

RPS 3 – the Radiation Protection Standard for Maximum Exposure Levels to Radiofrequency fields for 3kHz to 300kHz is set by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA).

RPS 3 allows for a radiation hazard area of 0-3 metres around the transmission site. Generally this is observed by putting up a fence.

RPS 3 is a precautionary approach to EMR, and is consistent with health considerations and the principles of ecologically sustainable development.

An observable feature of radiation that if exposure at regular intervals occurs outside the hazard area, and within an EMR field, it is possible to develop radiation affected illnesses.

Say for example, your bed was on one of those invisible EMR lines and you were there for 6-8 hour doses. Same kind of effect as those kids who grew up under powerlines all getting leukemia at once – strange and highly controversial and circumstancial, yet still balanced against the principles of ecologically sustainable development.

I read on the internet that mobile phone towers cause mother’s milk to curdle, and they have also been linked to several cases fish falling from the sky in Portugal.

and luddites.

A couple of corrections are required in the article. To say the tower is close to a child care centre stretches the truth more than a little. It is near the Karalika Drug Rehabilitation centre which has child care facilities, and even then it is not even that close. I suppose it sounds better to encourage outrage using a childcare centre than a group of druggies in rehab.

The second correction is to the statement “Residents in Macarthur and Fadden”. No, actually it is just a couple – the rest of us welcome the tower to improve the poor mobile coverage we have. Mr Sassella, of the so called community action group, just happens to live next to the tower site and I would suggest is much more concerned about his property value than any childcare centre. It is not like it is going to be in his backyard or anything. The tower site is in a reserve next to a water reservoir, some distance away from houses.

Just another winging NIMBY.