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13.06.2011, 18:20
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| | | What are the masts on top of apartment buildings?? (Basel)
This is a very random question!...
I've been househunting recently and have noticed that a couple of apartment buildings in Basel have serious looking masts on the roof. One of the flats we saw had 3 giant masts on top of the roof - they looked like a cross between a lightening conductor and a mobile phone mast.
Does anyone know what they are for? Could they be mobile phone masts?
Has anyone been put off renting because of these weird masts? I don't know if I should be put off or not, but somehow I can't help thinking of the link between cancer and mobile phone masts...
Thanks in advance 
Naomi
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13.06.2011, 18:28
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| | | Re: What are the masts on top of apartment buildings?? (Basel)
There are sometimes mobile phone antennas on residential buildings. AFAIK it's preferable to live within a building with an mobile phone antenna on top than to live in a neighbouring building because the antennas are directional.
However if you are worried about the antennas I would stay away from such buildings, because even if the radiation won't harm you, constant worrying probably will. | Quote: | |  | | | Does anyone know what they are for? Could they be mobile phone masts? | | | | | A picture or two might be helpful.  | | The following 2 users would like to thank Mark75 for this useful post: | |
13.06.2011, 18:32
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They emit the mind control rays that convince you the prices are normal, the trains run on time, and the food is better than anywhere else you've lived.  | | The following 10 users would like to thank phdoofus for this useful post: | |
13.06.2011, 21:40
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| | | Re: What are the masts on top of apartment buildings?? (Basel)
| Quote: | | | | | There are sometimes mobile phone antennas on residential buildings. AFAIK it's preferable to live within a building with an mobile phone antenna on top than to live in a neighbouring building because the antennas are directional.
However if you are worried about the antennas I would stay away from such buildings, because even if the radiation won't harm you, constant worrying probably will.
A picture or two might be helpful. | | | | |
its not those, i have one on the building opposite me, it looks like a huge 10M whip VHF antenna
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16.06.2011, 10:50
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| Quote: | | | | | They emit the mind control rays that convince you the prices are normal, the trains run on time, and the food is better than anywhere else you've lived. | | | | | The one near me is faulty, is there someone I can call to get it fixed?
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16.06.2011, 11:34
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| Quote: | | | | | The one near me is faulty, is there someone I can call to get it fixed? | | | | |
You probably bought one of those caps with a thin tin foil lining, remove the lining and all will be well again.
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16.06.2011, 11:37
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| Quote: | | | | | They emit the mind control rays that convince you the prices are normal, the trains run on time, and the food is better than anywhere else you've lived. | | | | | 
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