GPS Can Help Measure Hazards And Promote Safety — If You Let It

GPS data applied to link radar emissions, cancer

By ROBIN LORD
STAFF WRITER
DENNISPORT - Bernie Young will ask the PAVE PAWS Steering Committee again tomorrow - as he has many times before - why the Air Force is not monitoring the level of radiation coming from the Sagamore facility.

”We’re monitoring Pilgrim (Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth), we monitor air quality, and people have to monitor when they put in an alternative septic system, but PAVE PAWS gets a free ride?” he said.. Full Article Here:

Ah PAVE PAWS, I just love it, robin, when a reporter talks dirty.Two four letter words of mystery. Now some will tell you that it all stands for Precision Airborne Vehicle Entry Perimeter Acquisition Warning System but that’s not the official definition. Regardless of what you think it stands for, it stand mighty tall … more than 6 stories. I don’t have a picture from Cape Cod here, but this is the phased array system at Clear AFS, Alaska, which is now part of the PAVE PAWS system.

It’s a very low frequency (as radar systems go), very powerful phased array (which means the antenna doesn’t move, pulses of energy from emitters all across the face of the antenna actually for the beam of energy) emissions source. As such there are tons of effects that are little studied, and when the system was put together more than 30 years ago, the standards for electronic emissions were much more lenient than they are today.

The Air Force could, as the originator and operator of the GPS, have used the GPS to track the different studies of signal strength, spurious side lobe radiation, reported incidents of rare cancers, and more. Instead, they’ve denied and denied and denied for years now and leave it to civilian researches to find problems after the fact. No need to be proactive when sweeping under the rug will do. It’s not just Cape Cod who needs to worry, either. Up until a few years ago this graphic would have been classified. Now it represents a very good view of the Air Forces high power phased array radars. The Cape Cod unit is the blue fan in the center. Note that folks around Marysville California, Clear Alaska and James Herriot’s beloved Yorkshire Dales (Fylingsdale Moor) need to monitor their environment too. I’d mention the First Nation folk around Thule Greenland, but relocation and construction over the past 40 years have virtually denied them any environment to protect.

Is my message just one of sour grapes and I hate the government? Absolutely not. I served the Air Force more than 38 years, and when sensor data from those radars comes to Cheyenne Mountain it travels on long-haul circuits that I helped install and manage. What I do hate (and I’ve seen it aplenty during those 38 years) is the Air Force stonewalling, hiding their head in the sand, and hiring civilian contractor flacks to produce studies that demonstrably haven’t even done a proper job of studying. Unless the power levels, pulse emission spikes and actual residence latitudes, longitudes and elevations had been properly mapped with GPS in the past, how can anyone believe the studies. Nothing more than paid propaganda, absent scientific truth. My hat is off to Bernie Young and the other folks who need to ask the questions, again and again, until the Air Force owns up to its responsibilities/.