The problem of health effects of mobile for the first time discussed
in
public in Denmark
Klaus,
For the first time the problem of health effects of mobile phones
have
been discussed in public in Denmark. Last Friday it was extensively
referred in most of the media. They also discovered my existence,
since
I am the only expert in Denmark on biological and health effects.
The reason I went into this debate is that now UMTS/3G basestations
are
raised everywhere close to living environments and the people
are not
even informed about it. My argument is that this is a completely
new
technique and type of EMF and now introduced before any research
has
been done at all on its health effects. Moreover that the
number of
these new basestations will be very high and there will be
a dense
forest of mobile phone masts. From the present GSM we already
know a lot
about its health effects.
You can understand that I am now under heavy attack from
the mobile
phone industry and their socalled independent experts. You
know their
usual arguments. I want and they asked for it, to send out
a list of all
the published research and links that show that there are
health and
biological effects. Of course they know, but it is also for
the ordinary
public, that is not or misinformed.
Unfortunately there are no published studies on the effects
of
basestations and also not on the 3G system. After the last
meeting in
London Leila Kheifetz from WHO urged that such studies should
be
initiated and that also socalled anecdotal reports from the
general
public should be taken seriously.
Unfortunately she has (made to ?) left WHO and Mike Repacholi
is back
again and as you know he has denounced the precautionary principle.
This
suits the industry very well. One of their experts' advice
was, that
they just should start using the new techniques and afterwards
they
could always see if anybody will get killed or get sick!
The big issue is of course the non-thermal effects, of which
they have
never heard! They comply to ICNIRP standards.
Kind regards
Sianette Kwee
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Hans
Snook opened a state of the art diagnostic clinic in London
Dear Klaus
I have been amazed to see that Hans Snook, originator and
former chief
executive of `Orange', who used aggressive marketing techniques
involving
children using hand sets, has publicly declared his love for
alternative
medicine. As far as I know, he still owns the Carphone Warehouse
and
Orange Thailand. But now, by his own admission, he approves
of a
comprehensive approach to health including eastern methods
of healing
and has just opened a state of the art diagnostic clinic in
London near
Harley Street. The diagnostic consultation fees are extremely
high and
the market is aimed at the corporate sector. He hopes to open
more
clinics if his latest venture takes off.
For a man who now must know the negative health effects of
mobile phone
frequencies, what will he be doing in the future ? Will he
offer
diagnosis of health effects from electromagnetic pollution
caused by
mobile phones in his clinic?
The question is: Knowing how the mobile technology works,
and as a
result of his latest declaration of interest in the health
industry, is
Hans Snook now going to use his influence to develop a new
bio-compatible mobile phone system??? Is he now realising
the harm this
technology does to all Life on earth? Let's hope that he had
a
revelation on this! Let's hope that the more he studies about
alternative medicine, the more he recognises the harm it does
and that
now he regrets his influence in helping to market it. Let's
hope he uses
this knowledge to reverse the damage. If he uses the same
amount of
energy and power to solve this crisis as he helped to create
it, he will
go down in history as the one who turned the tide.
Ingrid Dickenson
HERE ARE SOME PREVIOUS ARTICLES ABOUT HANS SNOOK:
Snook to quit as Orange changes hands
By Dan Sabbagh (Filed: 29/11/2000)
HANS SNOOK, the founding chief executive of Orange, is to
stand down from
the mobile phone company early next year to spend more time
pursuing
personal interests in alternative medicine.
The Orange boss denied that he had had a bust-up with France
Telecom,
the company that acquired Orange for £25.1 billion in
May. Mr Snook will
remain as a "special adviser" to the company's board,
and be replaced as
chief executive by Jean-Franois Pontal from France Telecom
once Orange
is relisted in February or March next year.
Mr Snook, 52, said: "If I had stayed on in an executive
role beyond the
flotation, it would have been reasonable to expect me to stay
on another
three, four or five years. I couldn't commit to that on a
personal basis
because there are alternative therapies, homeopathy and nutritional
treatments that I need time to learn more about."
France Telecom's executive chairman, Michel Bon, said that
he was
disappointed but added: "I do not feel I am losing out.
He is free to
deal with the things he is good at - vision and branding.
Anyway, all
the rest of Orange is here, and the company is strong enough
to go on
beyond this." Mr Snook's departure became inevitable
once the French
government refused to waive an £8 billion capital gains
tax bill on the
company, which will combine France Telecom's and Orange's
original
mobile holdings.
In the summer, Mr Snook said he wanted to take on a non-executive
role,
and he was originally earmarked to become chairman. However,
this had
assumed that Orange would be legally incorporated as a British
company,
in which the role of non-executive chairman is normal. During
the
autumn, it emerged that if France Telecom wanted to transfer
its own
mobile interests across the Channel, it would be charged the
£8 billion.
This means that while Orange will be headquartered and run
from London,
its legal home will remain in France. French law also requires
that a
chairman is a full time executive - making the job unacceptable
to Mr
Snook.
A minority stake, expected to be 15pc, of Orange will be
floated in
February or March. The company's value is currently estimated
at between
Eu75 billion (£45 billion) and Eu100 billion - a sharp
drop since France
Telecom's acquisition. At that time, the enlarged Orange was
valued at
between Eu100 billion and Eu150 billion. Orange's primary
share listing
will be in Paris, with a secondary listing in London. The
company will
account in euros, but its London shares are expected to be
denominated
in sterling and investors will be able to receive dividends
in sterling.
It is not clear how much time Mr Snook will spend advising
the Orange
management. Mr Snook said that there was "no long contract"
detailing how
many hours he would spend with the company, although he added
that he
did not intend to act as a corporate advisor to any other
related company.
France Telecom also unveiled the rest of the new company's
management
structure, combining French executives with existing Orange
staff.
Deputy chief executive and chief financial officer Graham
Howe will retain his
role in the new group.
Mr Snook's departure will end an eight-year reign, which
has seen him
take the group from a little-known subsidary of Hong Kong
trading
conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa to Europe's second largest
mobile phone
group.
29 October 2000: Snook to quit as Orange chairman
14 October 2000: France Telecom delays Orange listing
10 October 2000: France Telecom reshapes Orange
30 May 2000: France Telecom to buy Orange for £25bn
16 April 2000: City Profile: Second time around for Snook
Wednesday, 4 April, 2001, 18:17 GMT 19:17 UK
Snook
says 3G delayed
Snook: "The cynics are going to be proved wrong again"
By BBC's News Online Technology Correspondent Mark Ward in
Florida
High-speed third-generation mobile phone networks are going
to arrive
later than expected, but mobile operators are going to make
money out of
them.
Hans Snook, former boss of the UK's Orange phone network,
said he does
not expect to see serious use of the new networks before 2004,
almost
two years later than expected.
A bullish Mr Snook said mobile phone firms have not paid
too much for
licences to operate the third-generation networks that will
let
operators offer a slew of novel services.
But operators will have to work hard to drive customers to
new services
or risk getting pushed out of the way by other companies keen
to reach
consumers via a mobile phone.
Mobile
future is bright
Speaking at the Accenture Global Communications Forum held
in Miami
Beach this week Mr Snook said pessimism about the future fortunes
of mobile
phone firms was misplaced.
Third generation mobile phones could take much longer to
come to market
"The price operators have paid for third-generation
(3G) licences will
ultimately be seen as conservative once the true potential
of these
networks is realised," he said, "today people think
it is expensive
because they do not understand where the revenue is going
to come from."
He added that many mobile companies suffered the same sort
of cynicism
when they launched analogue services. "The cynics are
going to be proved
wrong again," he said.
There will be no "meaningful" building of 3G networks
until the end of
2003, said Mr Snook, until then mobile phone firms will continue
to get
the bulk of their revenues from charging for voice calls.
New
services
But once the new networks are in place operators will be
able to drive
customers to new types of services, and not just give customers
access
to the internet while they are on the move.
The price operators have paid for third-generation licences
will
ultimately be seen as conservative once the true potential
of these
networks is realised.
Hans Snook: "As we move into the wirefree future we
will see 50-60% of
revenues coming from new services whether they be internet
or life
service based," he said, "after that they will grow
rapidly."
The new types of services will turn a phone from a device
that can make
and take calls to a "remote control for life" said
Mr Snook.
Already Orange is working with many technology developers
to create
devices and applications that can be used or managed by mobile.
As one example the company is working with the Royal College
of Art on a
t-shirt that can monitor vital signs and inform doctors or
health
workers if someone is at risk.
Pass
the remote control
Phones will also be used to manage money and control many
household
devices said Mr Snook.
But the challenge for mobile operators is finding ways to
make these
services work well and persuading customers to sign up for
them. The
technical and business obstacles to overcome are immense said
Mr Snook.
He said operators will have to be creative to find ways of
managing
customers so the new networks are exploited to their full
potential.
The role for operators is to brand themselves as the trusted
route that
people are happy to use and rely on for access to the new
realm of "life
services".
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Effects
of Microwave Radiation (Western View)
The public is now understandably wary of safety assurances
from
"official" government scientific sources w.r.t.
[with regard to]
electromagnetic pollution. This skepticism is enhanced when
views
contrary to official perceived wisdom is, at worst silenced
or, at best,
studiously ignored.
March 2001 report by the European Parliament STOA
We're all participating in a giant experiment in involuntary
epidemiology - irradiated by cell phones and towers, cordless
phones,
satellites, broadcast antennas, military and aviation radar,
TVs,
computers, wireless internet, wireless LANs in schools and
the
workplace, and now these meters, waiting to see what it does
to us.
Actually, we know what it does to us, so the results shouldn't
come as
any surprise.
The main problem isn't cancer, although the industry would
like you to
believe that, because then they can pull out statistics showing
how
infrequently it occurs as a result of low-level radiation.
Cancer takes
a long time to develop. Typically, other problems show up
first:
neurological, reproductive, and cardiac. Problems with severe
headaches,
sleep disturbances, memory loss, learning disabilities, attention
deficit disorder, and infertility show up long before cancer.
When
cancer does appear, it's typically brain tumors, leukemia,
and lymphoma.
Here are a few things to keep in mind about the health effects
of
microwave radiation:
1. Effects at low levels can be more noticeable than at higher
levels.
The existence of a "window effect" is well documented,
in which effects
occur at certain frequencies and power densities but not at
those
immediately above or below them. However, it's not as simple
as just
mapping these frequencies and power levels, because the local
geomagnetic field and individual susceptibility also influence
the
result.
Following are a few examples of the nonlinear nature of the
effects,
from Arthur Firstenberg's book Microwaving Our Planet (see
bottom of
page for information). In each case, emphasis has been added:
Firstenberg points out (p. 41) that "calcium ion efflux
from brain
tissue is extremely sensitive to irradiation with radiofrequency
waves."
He cites four studies and a literature review. In particular,
a 1986
study by Dutta et al. at 915 MHz and various exposure levels
showed that
"The effect at 0.0007 mW/g SAR [specific absorption rate]
was quadruple
the effect at 2.0 mW/g, in other words 3000 times the intensity
had 4
times less of an effect under these particular conditions."
Looking at
it the other way, an intensity three thousand times lower
had an effect
four times greater.
Firstenberg describes a number of studies on microwave radiation
and
blood cells. In one, "Chiang et al. (1989) in their epidemiological
study found that white blood cell phagocytosis was stimulated
by chronic
exposure to the lowest intensities of radio waves and inhibited,
sometimes severely, by higher intensities. . . . Exposure
levels ranged
from 0-4 mW/cm2 to 120 mW/cm2." (p. 22)
In another study on blood, "These results were further
refined by a
30-day experiment with guinea pigs at 1, 5, 10, and 50 mW/cm2
(Shandala
and Vinogradov 1978). All these intensities increased complement
in the
blood and stimulated phagocytosis by neutrophils, but 1 mW/cm2
had the
biggest effect, and 50 mW/cm2 the smallest effect." (p.
23)
The September 2000 newsletter of the Cellular Phone Taskforce,
No Place
To Hide, reported on some studies presented at the June 2000
European
Parliament meeting on mobile phones and health. In one presentation,
Dr.
Lebrecht von Klitzing, of the Medical University of Luebeck,
Germany,
said, "Some people become ill at power densities of less
than 10
nanowatts/cm2. . . . Small children are very sensitive to
these
emitters, down to field densities of 1 nanowatt/cm2."
Another article in the newsletter says that Dr. Leif Salford,
of Lund
University, Sweden, "had previously reported that short
exposure to
microwaves at 915 MHz damages the blood-brain barrier. . .
. 'The most
remarkable observation in our studies,' said Salford [at the
conference], 'is the fact that SAR values lower than 1 mW/kg
give rise
to a more pronounced albumin leakage than higher SAR values.
. . . The
situation that the weakest fields, according to our findings,
are the
biologically most effective, poses a major problem.'"
2. Another effect independent of power level is resonance,
which occurs
at certain frequency ranges where the wavelength is near the
size of a
body part. An example is the 900 Mhz range, which has a wavelength
of
approximately one foot - a size that can cause resonance in
a child's
head (because some of the radiation is absorbed, and the wavelength
decreases). This intensifies the biological effect. Also,
children's
skulls are thinner, so microwaves penetrate more easily. (Another
problem is that children's cells are dividing rapidly, which
creates
more chance for DNA damage. Their immune systems are not fully
developed
and can't defend them against this.)
3. Pulsed radiation, of the type produced by these meters,
is more
harmful at the cellular level than continuous-wave. The meters
emit
pulses twice in two seconds, although the interval is random.
4. Studies are typically done for short exposure periods
at higher
intensities, because running studies longer costs more money.
This
allows the industry to claim that few studies have been done
that show
effects for long-term, low-level exposure and that "nonthermal"
effects
do not exist. But public health scientists point out that
duration is
also important, and long-term, low-level exposure can have
equivalent
effects.
5. The effects of radiation are cumulative, in both senses.
The meters
add to the cumulative radiation as sources proliferate, and
microwave
radiation is cumulative in sense of increasing the body's
sensitivity
over time. Research shows that test subjects don't always
recover
completely and that subsequent exposures can cause effects
at lower
levels.
6. There are no longer any control groups, because we are
now exposed to
so much radiation. Alasdair Phillips points out the problem
in an email
to the Roy Beavers list (archived on the Library page at
http://www.wave-guide.org).
Recently an American epidemiologist, Dr Sam Milham, re-analysed
Doll's
own data presented in his 1956 (Doll & Hill) paper which
showed that
heavy smokers were 23.7 times more likely to die from lung
cancer than
non-smokers. However when you compare the figures for heavy
smokers vs
light and moderate ones the ORs [odds ratios] fall to 3.5
and 1.9. When
you compare light smokers with moderate ones you get an OR
of only 1.8.
Applying this concept to microwaves, there are no unexposed
and few
highly exposed subjects. So experimental results showing harm
compared
to a control group can be deceptively low-like comparing lung
cancer in
heavy smokers to light or moderate smokers rather than nonsmokers.
This
allows the industry to downplay the implications of health
effects.
7. Even in full studies, sometimes the abstract and/or conclusion
may
not accurately reflect the study's data, especially if the
industry was
involved or the researcher is concerned about funding.
For example, Kathleen Thurmond, M.D., in a 1999 talk, said,
a study
presented by Dr. Ross Adey at the 1996 annual meeting of the
Bioelectromagnetics Society in Victoria, B.C., Canada, showed
a decrease
in the incidence of brain tumors in rats chronically exposed
to digital
cellular telephone fields. However, there was no mention in
his sstudy
of the increased incidence of spinal column tumors found in
his research
according to a reliable source. It would be standard scientific
practice
to at least note this finding regarding spinal column tumors.
Dr. Ross
Adey's research funding by Motorola has now been terminated.
Dr. Henry Lai was quoted in the London Times as saying, "They
are asking
me to change my whole interpretation of the findings in a
way that would
make them more favorable to the mobile phone industry. This
is what
happened in the tobacco industry. They had data in their hands
but when
it was not favorable they did not want to disclose it."
The European Parliament report says, "[A] relatively
recent reanalysis
of the Lilienfeld report on the Moscow US Embassy irradiation
during the
'cold' war, based on information that only became fully available
following the Freedom of Information Act . . . reveals that
the original
verdict of no serious health effects was, in fact, a sanitised
version
of Lilienfeld's findings, in which his statements of concern
had been
deliberately removed by the State Department."
Alternatives to reading every study include abstracts, books
or reports
that summarize the research, and capsule descriptions of studies
in
tabular format. Following are some sources for each of these:
Dr. Henry Lai, a well-known bioelectromagnetics researcher
at the
University of Washington, Seattle, has compiled a 97-page
collection of
abstracts from studies conducted between 1995 and 2000. The
list, in pdf
format, can be found on the Research page of the EMR Network's
web site.
As the web site points out, "80% of these studies demonstrate
some kind
of biological effect."
http://www.electric-words.com
contains abstracts of many studies.
The Physiological and Environmental Effects of Non-Ionising
Electromagnetic Radiation is a 34-page report issued in March
2001 by
the European Parliament Directorate General for Research,
Scientific and
Technological Options Assessment (STOA). Written by Dr. Gerard
Hyland,
it pulls no punches in warning of the hazards of microwave
radiation.
Potential and Actual Adverse Effects of Radiofrequency and
Microwave
Radiation at Levels Near and Below 2 uW/cm2, is a 200-page
report by Dr.
Neil Cherry, of Lincoln University, New Zealand. The introduction
says,
"Strong claims by industry representatives and their
consultants that
there is no scientific evidence to justify the public's fears
is
scientifically demonstrably wrong."
An April 2001 press release by the ECOLOG-Institut, in Hannover,
Germany, says that the institute's report on cellular microwave
exposure
presents "the results and recommendations of the comprehensive
study
carried out by order of the German T-Mobil, in which physicists,
medical
scientists, and biologists took part." (The press release
and study are
available in German on the Institute's web site.)
There are a number of scientific findings from investigations
on
sub-populations with an elevated exposition to high frequency
electromagnetic fields and from animal experiments that have
to be taken
seriously. These findings point on a cancer-promoting effect
of high
frequency electromagnetic fields used by cellular telephone
technology.
Experiments on cell cultures yielded clear evidence for geno-toxic
effects of these fields, like DNA breaks and damage to chromosomes,
so
that even a cancer-initiating effect cannot be excluded any
longer. The
findings that high frequency electro-magnetic fields influence
cell
transformation, cell promotion and cell communication also
point on a
carcinogenic potential of the fields used for cellular telephony.
Moreover disturbances of other cellular processes, like the
synthesis of
proteins and the control of cell functions by enzymes, have
been
demonstrated.
In numerous experiments on humans as on animals influences
on the
central nervous system were proven, which reach from neuro-chemical
effects to modifications of the brain potentials and impairments
of
certain brain functions. The latter effects for instance have
been
demonstrated by animal experiments and e.g. showed up as deficits
in the
ability to learn simple tasks when exposed to the fields.
From
experiments with volunteers, who were exposed to the fields
of mobile
telephones, there is clear evidence for influences on certain
cognitive
functions. Possible risks for the brain also arise from an
increased
permeability of the blood-brain barrier to potentially harmful
substances, observed in several experiments on animals exposed
to mobile
telephone fields.
The scientist at the ECOLOG-Institute also found some evidence
for
disturbances of the hormone and the immune system. High frequency
electromagnetic fields cause stress reactions, showing up
in an
increased production of stress hormones in experimental animals
and they
lead to a reduction of the concentration of the hormone melatonin
in the
blood of exposed animals. The latter finding is important,
because
melatonin has a central control function for the hormone system
and the
diurnal biological rhythms and it is able to retard the development
of
certain tumours.
Dr. Peter Neitzke, coordinator of the institute's working
group, says
this: "80 per cent of the papers published in scientific
journals do not
contribute anything to the evaluation of possible health risks
due to
the electromagnetic fields emitted by cellular telephones
and their base
stations. The remainder however, on which our assessment relies,
is made
so good and is in itself so consistent that we must take the
findings
referring to health risks seriously. In order to improve the
protection
of the public against the possibly harmful effects of the
electromagnetic fields from cellular telephones and their
base stations,
we need much lower precautionary standards. . . ." [Italics
added.]
The report says, "The ECOLOG-institute recommends not
to exceed a
precautionary standard of 0,01 W/m2 [ = 1 microwatt per square
centimeter] when siting cellular telephone base stations in
the
proximity of dwellings, schools, kindergartens, hospitals,
and similarly
sensitive uses."
In a commentary to this, Dr. Neil Cherry, a well-known EMF
researcher in
New Zealand, says, "The actual expose levels at which
these genetic
effects are shown are about 0.5 to 1.2 microWatt/sq cm. These
are not
safe levels, they are just experimental levels that show that
at
extremely low experimental levels genotoxic response occur-cell-by-cell.
There is no safe threshold."
In other words, the maximum level the ECOLOG-Institute recommends
is
already the level at which, as Dr. Cherry points out, genetic
effects
occur. This also happens to be about the same exposure level
from a
cell-phone tower with a single set of antennas, sometimes
as much as
1000 feet away or more, depending on terrain, obstructions,
signal
strength, etc. When another telecom with the same signal strength
colocates on the tower, the radiation increases.
A list of about two dozen studies on low-level microwaves,
compiled by
Cindy Sage, a consultant on EMF mitigation, can be found on
the Library
page at www.wave-guide.org. The list is grouped by exposure
level (from
.1 to 120 mW/cm2) and SAR (Specific Absorption Rate).
As part of his Radio Wave Packet, Arthur Firstenberg, president
of the
Cellular Phone Taskforce, has created a list of about 40 studies
grouped
by exposure level, beginning as low as 10-13 mW/cm2 and extending
to 10
mW/cm2. Therefore, it has little overlap with Cindy Sage's
list and is
more applicable to the levels encountered with microwave meters
and cell
towers. It also includes Soviet and Russian research.
Arthur Firstenberg has also written a book, Microwaving Our
Planet
(currently out of print), with brief descriptions of studies
grouped by
the affected system (nervous, reproductive, heart, respiratory,
etc.)
and, under each system, by whether the study was done on humans,
animals, or cells.
Source: http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/radiation/health_efx_western.htm
http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/radiation/links.htm
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Volcanoes
In California, Idaho, and Pacific Northwest Building Towards
Catastrophic Eruptions
http://yowusa.com/Archive/Jun2003/volcanism1/volcanism1.htm
http://yowusa.com/Archive/Jul2003/jul2003.html
Faults resonate naturally in scalar. Power is built within
faults from
collapse of this resonance leading to even stronger resonant
conditions.
Strong resonating faults can be detected at distances over
thousands of
kilometers. Un-impeded, the process continues until the climax
burst
with earthquake following.
Biological entities such as humans, animals, and insects
are affected by
scalar emanations. Strong scalar emanation causes indirect
'ear tones'
in auditory complex in the ears, cause magnetic sensitive
biologicals to
be affected, results in changes in magnetic fields (sliding
refrigerator
magnets) - thus insect disruption & bird sensitivities,
cause sudden
ionization in upper atmospherics leading to 'bubble chamber'
like
condensations, causes luminous phenomena such as glowing lights,
the
list goes on and on.
What is interesting is that the earthquake starts much earlier
than the
traditional mechanical movement. Recent discovery of 'Silent'
or 'Slow'
earthquakes - which violate 'brittle fracture' theory - are
just the
beginning phase of a traditional quake. However, this occurs
more on a
molecular basis in that crustal rigidity or modulus of elasticity
changes (i.e. becomes rubbery). This is why P-waves are observed
to
travel slower before large earthquakes.
How did all of this knowledge come to be? From years of measurements
of
hundreds of earthquakes in California, Washington, and Oregon
using very
radical technology unknown to mainstream science. It has taken
a number
of generations of sensory equipment to perfect while also
unravelling
the mysteries of the complex processes leading to the genesis
of the
earthquake.
and
United
Kingdom: 'Rogue radio waves' lock out drivers
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=29+Jul+2003
+19%3A36&tbrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=
EDPOnline&itemid=NOED29+Jul+2003+19%3A36%3A50%3A977
ISABEL COCKAYNE July 29, 2003 19:36
Dozens of shoppers were stranded in Thetford today after
their cars
locked them out. Immobilisers and electric locking systems
shut down,
locking several people out of their cars parked at the Forest
Retail
Park. The mystery mass lock-out has been blamed on rogue radio
waves.
Although it is unclear where the radio waves were transmitted
from, the
incident is to be investigated by the Radio Broadcasting Commission.
Sainsbury's staff provided cups of tea and help for stranded
families,
who had to wait for mechanics to fix the problems.
and
EM/RF/MW
RADIATION RING
http://members.toast.net/flashradar/FLASH20745.html
Informant: KD Weber
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