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A photo taken of a US soldier Explaining to other American soldiers they are being cooked by a Radar, Orgun-E Afghanistan 2003
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Can confirm, ionizing radiation also gives you a wicked headache. Big shout-out to the fuckhead who had us working 20 feet below an active broadcast antenna after telling us it was definitely off at 1180 feet.
FYI, radio waves are not ionizing. Neither are microwaves.
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Microwaves can still cook you but they won't give you cancer.
Y'know what, you're right, thank you for checking me on that. I spent 6 years doing broadcast and cell work and have been out for several years, my memories of the RF awareness classes have waned a bit. No matter though, it's still fuckin' painful to be 20 feet under a television broadcast antenna at full power.
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Radio frequency isn't ionising radiation. It's still harmful to absorb a bunch but individual photons don't have enough energy to ionise particles.