Mobile phone masts..

[Bear]

Wrong, power levels from a mast drop via an inverse square with distance. The signal is partly directional, but it will always be stronger closer to the mast than further away from it.

You do know the average output of a current mast is about 80watts full stop too, right?

Its not technically wrong although you're right in what you say. The least amount of power detecable near the antenna is directly underneath it. Thats because most anntenas these days are sectorised for increased directivity, so the beam patterns radiate out from those patch antennas.

 

[Bear]

at college the other day my teacher brought in a radiation detector thing, and we each in turn turned out phone off, put it near the detector, then turned the phone back on.....its amazing just HOW MUCH radiation actually come off phones

And i have one in my right pocket now next to my man hood

It depends on what sensitivity the equipment is set at. A mobile phone will generally transimit at a maximum of 1watt around a 360deg sphere so the power is pretty small. If you look at it on a spectrum analyser then the signal could look huge as they measure well below -150dbm which equates to 1e-15mW

 

[teaboy5]

Heheheh you said "Chelmsford" ...

... oops sorry back on topic.


They are attempting to build a 3G mast right on top of our flats, which needless to say has us a little worried. We have discovered that they dont require planning permission from the local council they just have to inform them. They only permission of the land owners.

Unfortuntely we are lease hold so the chances are a few £k is bunged to the owners which is not put towards the upkeep of our flats and we have to suffer and lose some value of my flat

Look on the up side, at least you will have a good 3G signal