[time-nuts] The word, "Radiation" as a boogieman...
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 9 14:22:00 UTC 2013
On 7/9/13 7:01 AM, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
> John,
>
> Unfortunately, there's a lot of money in fear. Being in broadcast
> engineering I learned as long time ago to never use the words,
> "radiation" or "radiate" a signal when referring to a station's signal.
> Instead, I refer to it as, "Launch" or "Launched" a signal. When asked
> about a radio station's radiation I remind them about the expression,
> "radiate a smile". It simply means, " to send out". If you really want
> to frighten people, use the expression, "To radiate SPAM!"
>
>
Indeed..
It's so pervasive that when you go out to get approval for human
experimentation, there's a different process if any radiation is
involved: ionizing OR non-ionizing (e.g. RF/microwaves). I asked why,
because I was looking at radiating a milliwatt at a few GHz.
It's because of the informed consent aspect. You need to have a simple
explanation of what you're doing and that will inevitably have that
"word" in it, along with a reference to the IEEE/ANSI standard.
(although I've been careful to use the word "exposure" and "field",
rather than "radiation")
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