• possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Can confirm, ionizing radiation also gives you a wicked headache. Big shout-out to the fuckhead who had us working 20 feet below an active broadcast antenna after telling us it was definitely off at 1180 feet.

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        Y’know what, you’re right, thank you for checking me on that. I spent 6 years doing broadcast and cell work and have been out for several years, my memories of the RF awareness classes have waned a bit. No matter though, it’s still fuckin’ painful to be 20 feet under a television broadcast antenna at full power.

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      Radio frequency isn’t ionising radiation. It’s still harmful to absorb a bunch but individual photons don’t have enough energy to ionise particles.