What is web site where I can enquire about phone masts, flood plain etc?

[G&M]

Well if you propose climbing them, you deserve all the radiation you get.

The rest of us on the ground leave it to the inverse square law to keep us safe.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, it would act as an aerial.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

Er, where did I suggest I might involve myself in such a mad pursuit?

Plus, the avoidance of phone masts helps as well.

MM

[Howard Neil]

MM, Why just 'phone masts? Why not radio, TV, and private mobile radio? Also, how far away do you have to be from these masts to be safe and how do you decide this figure?

[Ian Stirling]

This is true. The advice to make a foil hat is dangerous, and the poster was obviously an idiot. The correct solution is to wrap the foil round your entire body, ensuring an overlap at all the joins, and at least an average of two layers.

[Bob Eager]

I resent that! I meant to add that the foil hat should be earthed by connecting it (via a 25 sq mm cable) to a large spike driven into the ground...

[Lurch]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:26:31 GMT, Mike Harrison strung together this:

on aluminium

But the best solution by far is to position yourself inside a copper plated airtight lead box. After a short while no amount of radiation will have any effect on you whatsoever.

[Mike Harrison]

..and you really should use copper foil, soldered at the seams, as the oxide layer on aluminium significantly increases impedance at the join.

[Mike Mitchell]

Whereupon you would drown in your own sweat within a few hours on a hot day.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

... sounds like a solution even Milligan would have been wary of.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

on aluminium

Weathered copper looks so much nicer, though. You'd look like a church roof. Passers by would tap on your bonce to beg for forgiveness.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

on aluminium

No, it's far easier to ask in the news groups how to find out whether a property is near a flood plain, phone mast or other salient features nearby.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

I look north, south, east and west, and if I can see one of the offending structures or something potentially disguised as one, like Jeremy Clarkson, I simply strike the property from my shortlist and move on.

MM

[Owain]

"Bob Eager" wrote | I meant to add that the foil hat should be earthed by | connecting it (via a 25 sq mm cable) to a large spike | driven into the ground...

I thought 6mm was acceptable for an earth conductor if mechanically protected?

Owain

[Howard Neil]

Is it that you find them ugly or are you worried about the signals?

[Bob Eager]

Yes, but that's at 50Hz.... this is RF....!

[Dave Liquorice]

This is for shuntting RF to ground so you need the larger surface area of 25mm cable because of the skin effect.

[raden]

In message , Mike Mitchell writes

Not if you'd done the job properly, you would have asphyxiated in a couple of minutes

[Ian Stirling]

Why do you suspect that Jeremy Clarkson is a disguised mobile mast?

[Howard Neil]

Because he's usually sitting behind a radiator? :-)