Is it safe for children to play near masts with mobile antennas?
If you are concerned about safety in relation to radiation from mobile antennas, you should be aware that masts with mobile antennas only emit very weak signals down on the ground and around the mast, in fact less than 1 per cent of the limit value. The maximum amount of radiation that can reach the ground will be directly in front of the aiming direction and at a distance of approximately 100 meters from the mast (but even there the radiation is very weak). This is due to the fact that the antennas transmit radio signals through a very narrow ray that is only to a modest degree aimed at the ground. If you find yourself directly below the mast, the effect is comparable to the light that strikes you if you fix a flashlight on your head pointing it straight ahead, rather than the amount of light that falls on you when you find yourself caught in the beam of the light from the flashlight.
