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Offline PeacefrogTopic starter

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Microwave antenna above apartment - safety?
« on: September 26, 2018, 10:49:45 am »
Hope this is OK to post in general chat! I'm looking to rent an apartment on the top floor, and there's a roof garden above containing a microwave antenna (I *think* to provide internet) - it's actually mounted above the apartment next door, but the beam is in line with a couple of the bedrooms. It's also not a huge antenna (~15cm?) and mounted about 1.5m above the roof itself.

Would anyone on here have qualms with this setup? I *think* these antennas are pretty directional and it'd be safe, but curious to see what the opinion is.

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Offline Halcyon

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Re: Microwave antenna above apartment - safety?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2018, 10:55:53 am »
No issues what so ever.
 

Offline Miyuki

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Re: Microwave antenna above apartment - safety?
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2018, 11:00:41 am »
This devices work with minuscule power levels like hundreds of mW to ones of W and connect just to direct visibility with just few degrees antenna
This is totally safe even to stand in front of antenna

Different story will be huge transmitters with hundreds of watts or even kilowatts they can be dangerous but they have big restricted area around them
 

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Re: Microwave antenna above apartment - safety?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2018, 11:55:06 am »
I think even the most careful people worried about microwave heating effects on the brain or other effects on the body would have a threshold of at least a few watts (as a point source antenna near your ear) over the years to make any sorts of claims.

Distance + dirt + directivity losses = not much
« Last Edit: September 26, 2018, 11:57:48 am by coppercone2 »
 

Offline Bud

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Re: Microwave antenna above apartment - safety?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2018, 05:30:56 pm »
i used to live in an appartment on the top floor with a bunch of cell service antennas on the roof. I could not use my 900 MHz wireless headphones, they got jammed.
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