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SHAFFER: Nothing else.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Do the Commissioners have any questions for Corey?
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<br />HENKEL: I have one. You know, I’m pretty satisfied with the structural integrity of these and
<br />the visual impacts, you know, have been mitigated, and forgive me for going back to the
<br />radiation concerns—
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<br />SHAFFER: --Sure--.
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<br />HENKEL: --the smaller rings that you’re talking about. Does that mean that the technology has
<br />improved to where’s there not as much radiation danger as there was in the past?
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<br />SHAFFER: Absolutely, so over the years, wireless technologies have decreased in power, so if
<br />you go back to the old analog days, people’s phones that they carried around—
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<br />MARTIN: Those big ones—
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<br />SHAFFER: --yeah, bag phones, car phones, those were three to six watts. The highest your
<br />phone can transmit today according to the FCC is 250 milliwatts. And one thing to keep in
<br />mind—Danette talked about how you have to be very close to the antenna for it to cause any
<br />radiation, yeah, over 99 percent of the areas that you’ll be, your phone is going to expose you to
<br />more energy than the tower, and that’s because the energy from radio signal decays as one over
<br />to the distance to the source squared. So, that’s like a really quickly dropping curve. So, if you
<br />stand for example. If you were to stand at the base of this 100-foot tower, as close as you could
<br />get to it, your phone would be transmitting about 1,000 times hotter than the tower, at the
<br />location of your head. So, I encourage you to use your headsets. No, I mean, so, you know, but
<br />the FCC has determined that it—so, we’re still at a much safer place than we’ve ever been, a
<br />quarter of a watt, and some of the new FCC regulations, they’re using proximity sensors, so if
<br />you’re closer to it, it even clamps your power down to what we call 10 dBm which is
<br />significantly lower than 250 milliwatts. That’s closer to 10 milliwatts, so the power as the cell
<br />density increases, our exposure to radiation actually decreases, because the cell phone is closer to
<br />the tower, and the cell phone can talk much quieter. So, if you live out in the rural area, you’re
<br />actually exposed to the most radiation if you own a cell phone because your cell phone has to
<br />scream to be heard by that tower. So, the person who is exposed to the least radiation is the
<br />person closest to the tower ‘cause their phone can talk the most quietly, because the downlink
<br />coming from the tower to the phone is always much, much quieter than the phone itself because
<br />of your proximity.
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<br />HENKEL: Thank you.
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<br />SHAFFER: So, the point where the phone becomes equivalent to the tower is roughly five feet
<br />away, so you have to be quite close, and we do these EME studies, and they, the FCC, does not
<br />even require them for towers because they’re so tall that there’s no way anyone could get in front
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