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Med. Pr. 2001;52(5)

Exposure to VHF and UHF electromagnetic fields among workers employed in radio and TV broadcast centers. I. Exposure assessment

Wpływ pola elektromagnetycznego zakresu VHF i UHF na układ krążenia i regulację neurowegetatywną pracowników radiowo-telewizyjny

M. Zmyślony, H. Aniołczyk, A. Bortkiewicz

Abstract

Nowadays, radio and television have become one of the areas of the human technical activity that develops most rapidly. Also ultra-short waves of VHF (30-300 MHz) and UHF (0.3-3 GHz) bands have proved to be the most important carriers of radio and TV-programs. In Poland, a network of radio and TV broadcast centers (RTCN) with high (over 200 m) masts was set up in the 1960s and 1970s. These centers concentrate the majority of stations broadcasting national and local programs (for areas within the RTCN range). At present, the RTCN established several decades ago are equally important.
The assessment of the exposure to electromagnetic fields among workers of multi-program broadcast stations is complicated and feasible only to a certain degree of approximation because of changing conditions of exposure in individual stations during their long history, resulting from the changing numbers and types of transmitters installed.
In this work, the method of retrospective estimation of exposure dose isdescribed, and the results of the assessment carried out at three kinds of typical RTCN are discussed. The results of the analysis indicate that the workers of RTCN are exposed primarily to electromagnetic fields of VHF and UHF bands, but this exposure may be considered as admissible, hence it should not exert an adverse effect on the workersś health.

Key words

electromagnetic field, occupational exposure, radio and TV broadcast stations