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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 05:14 PM Feb 2012

Ailing US people find refuge from radio waves

Home to the world's only National Radio Quiet Zone, the US state of West Virginia is proving to be a welcome respite for people who feel their health is affected by the radio waves from mobile phone masts, Wi-Fi signals, and even microwaves.

The National Radio Astronomical Observatory created to the zone to safeguard the faint incoming data to its Green Bank Telescope and seven other smaller dishes all looking for clues to the origins of the universe,

Items such as mobile phones are not allowed to be used without permission for thousands of square miles around the arae.

For sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, the blackout means relief from ailments they say are caused by such waves.


http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/02/20122189014951813.html

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Ailing US people find refuge from radio waves (Original Post) FarCenter Feb 2012 OP
If there are people who are really that sensitive to radio waves... Speck Tater Feb 2012 #1
Or, for the really serious cases, copper foil. FarCenter Feb 2012 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Feb 2012 #2
Nah. Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #5
It's really not funny KT2000 Feb 2012 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Feb 2012 #8
I find that my aluminum foil hat LiberalEsto Feb 2012 #4
Freemasons run the country. n/t DefenseLawyer Feb 2012 #7
 

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)
1. If there are people who are really that sensitive to radio waves...
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 05:20 PM
Feb 2012

they should put grounded shielding on their bedroom walls. Some aluminum screening connected to a ground would do the trick.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
3. Or, for the really serious cases, copper foil.
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 05:37 PM
Feb 2012

Use phosphor bronze weather stripping to seal the door, and be sure to put a grounding strap between the door and wall.

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KT2000

(20,577 posts)
6. It's really not funny
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 08:28 PM
Feb 2012

I know people who are affected by this and their life is hell.
You may want to do some research - google electromagnetic sensitivity. Sweden has some good research on it.

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