AT&T just put this in my backyard!
I wonder how close is too close?
For starters you would have to climb that pole, which is illegal, and devise a seat/ sling/ harness so you an "live" up there every day for days, weeks, months on end with your head next to the antenna.....................
"How's that goin for ya?"
As an example, our old GCA RADAR is listed as having a peak power output of 45KW. But the pulse width is only 1.8 microseconds. The pulse rate is 5500hz. If I did this right that gives a duty cycle of .00099. The AVERAGE power is something like only 45 watts
What we had for "specs" back in those days--------and who knows who came up with them, is that the minimum safe distance for the antenna in scan is ONE FOOT. You can not get that close if the radome doors on the antennas are shut, as they are more than a food from the antenna reflectors. If you were to stop the scan --"fixed scan"-- the listed safe distance was 10 feet The catwalk was right up against the trailer, so you "would not" have wanted to be there. But who knows who came up with those safe distances and whether they were even close?
THE FACT IS there was NEVER any reason to be on the catwalk when the RADAR was operating.
