Radio frequency radiation (RFR) from radio antennas

Author

Sirav, Bahriye ; Seyhan, Nesrin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biophys., Gazi Univ., Ankara, Turkey

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

11-16 May 2003

Firstpage

1232

Abstract

For the last 30 years, biological effects of non-ionizing radiation (NIR: 0-300 GHz) has got the top position in the scientific area, since a large population of the people are exposed to these fields. In this study, we evaluated the radio frequency radiation (RFR) at a pilot region located in Yenimahalle Sentepe Dededoruk Hill, in Ankara, Turkey. There are 64 different TV and radio towers and one base station at that region. With this study we calculated RFR of 14 radio transmitters. Although the base station, TV transmitters and some of radio transmitters are not included in the calculations, the radiation is found 388% more than the permitted standard values of Turkey.

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; health hazards; microwave antennas; radio transmitters; Ankara; TV tower; TV transmitters; Turkey; Yenimahalle Sentepe Dededoruk Hill; base station; biological effects; nonionizing radiation; radio antennas; radio frequency radiation; radio tower; radio transmitters; Base stations; Electromagnetic heating; Electromagnetic radiation; Ionizing radiation; Microwave ovens; Mobile handsets; Radar; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2003. EMC '03. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7779-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC2.2003.1429141

Filename

1429141