Hi all,
Just wanted to ask a question about a local radio tower I came across last week here in Scotland. It was actually a LORAN A station operating from Dec 1943 as part of a military installation during WWII - but now it's been transformed into a CAA NATS transmitting station for local air traffic control (Site Number NB03SW 49) with a receiving station nearby.
It's about 35 - 40 meters high (picture attached) and I think it's a UHF and VHF transmitter. I was walking around the site because we're looking for locations to shoot a couple of scenes for a short film and this looked good as it's next to some awesome clifftop coastline.
The site and access road is totally open to the public, although the buildings are of course secured and the bottom of the tower is fenced off to stop anyone from scaling it. We only intend to do a shot of someone walking past the tower about ten meters away at ground level and of course wouldn't try to touch anything, mess with signals or anything silly like that.
As I'm pretty much an idiot with this type of thing, I was wondering about the radiation safety of spending half an hour or so at ground level near the base of a tower like this? I understand that the radio waves are probably being transmitted horizontally from the aerials at the top and not much RF radiation leaks out vertically. However, I thought it would be best to check with people who know a lot more than me. There is a yellow 'RF Warning' triangle at the base of the ladder, but I assume that indicates the point where you shouldn't pass.
Any advice at all would be much appreciated. This forum seems to be a cool place to find out about stuff like this!
Just wanted to ask a question about a local radio tower I came across last week here in Scotland. It was actually a LORAN A station operating from Dec 1943 as part of a military installation during WWII - but now it's been transformed into a CAA NATS transmitting station for local air traffic control (Site Number NB03SW 49) with a receiving station nearby.
It's about 35 - 40 meters high (picture attached) and I think it's a UHF and VHF transmitter. I was walking around the site because we're looking for locations to shoot a couple of scenes for a short film and this looked good as it's next to some awesome clifftop coastline.
The site and access road is totally open to the public, although the buildings are of course secured and the bottom of the tower is fenced off to stop anyone from scaling it. We only intend to do a shot of someone walking past the tower about ten meters away at ground level and of course wouldn't try to touch anything, mess with signals or anything silly like that.
As I'm pretty much an idiot with this type of thing, I was wondering about the radiation safety of spending half an hour or so at ground level near the base of a tower like this? I understand that the radio waves are probably being transmitted horizontally from the aerials at the top and not much RF radiation leaks out vertically. However, I thought it would be best to check with people who know a lot more than me. There is a yellow 'RF Warning' triangle at the base of the ladder, but I assume that indicates the point where you shouldn't pass.
Any advice at all would be much appreciated. This forum seems to be a cool place to find out about stuff like this!
