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Post Time: 09/06/2008 11:24:19 |
Anne B
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I'm thinking of buying a property in Alnmouth, Northumberland, which is about 2.5 - 3 miles from RAF Boulmer. It's a commercial property and it would be a major investment and change of life for me. I'm not currently electro-sensitive, but I suffer from chronic fatigue and have already made the conclusion that I don't want to be near to mobile phone masts as I'm the sort of person whose most at risk of electrosensitivty and health problems from radiation. I'm wondering if I could be affected by the communications at RAF Boulmer. It is home to the NATO Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) and the School of Fighter Control. Also home to the Search and Rescue Sea King Helicopters of 'A' flight 202 squadron.(www.raf.mod.uk/rafboulmer). I've driven past and there are two very large masts which look a bit like giant mobile phone masts, plus there's a pylon like structure (but straight up and down and not as big as a pylon).
I spoke to a lady on the Powerwatch number and she said not all the radio waves from military installations can be picked up. But that radar could. I already have your electrosmog detector, so can use that if it will help.
Please could you advise.
AnneB
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Post Time: 13/06/2008 20:49:19 |
alasdairP
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AnneB
This is a good question as some air bases have a high-energy RF footprint in the surrounding areas. It isn't possible to answer this definitively. However, we can make some (hopefully helpful!) comments. It is the current UK Government and MoDs intentions to keep RAF Boulmer as the main air-defence control and co-ordination site for the UK. The main control centre is underground.
However, all the main high-powered radar units are a long way away at remote sites (they are listed on the RAF Boulmer website), so there will be very little radar and (we believe) no high-power radar facilities sited at RAF Boulmer. Most long-distance communications now use satellite and direct focussed beam microwave links and do not scatter radiation into the surrounding area. The wide-area coverage systems for direct communication with search and rescue helicopters, etc, will not be very powerful.
The town of Alnmouth is situated behind a small hill in the direction of Boulmer, so if your proposed property is within the town it will be well screened from the masts at Boulmer and RF signal from Boulmer are likely to be tiny. Most of the properties in Alnmouth are close to sea level (under 15 metres datum) and are most unlikely to receive high RF /microwave signals from anywhere.
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Post Time: 14/06/2008 11:29:57 |
Anne B
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Thanks a lot Alasdair. This is very helpful and looks very positive. I did go over to the shop I'm proposing to buy with my electrosmog detector and there was very little on it anywhere in the village. What little bits registered on the detector were, I think, coming from wireless of some sort in commercial buildings. There was something coming from the estuary area a little bit away from the village - not sure what that was, but not a problem for me. So I think that pretty much supports what you said. Thanks again for your helpful advice which is very much appreciated.
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