Electromagnetic Radiation Requirements

This page not yet written properly.

It will summarize the situation for VHF/UHF operators using long yagis, perhaps with a couple of typical examples.

Meanwhile see the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) site at http://www.aca.gov.au/standards/emr/.
The technical material for doing your own calculations is at http://www.aca.gov.au/standards/emr/guidelines.pdf.
The main document for amateurs to assess their compliance is at http://www.aca.gov.au/standards/emr/amateur.pdf.

Implementation date - not yet known.

Further background information may be found on the site of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA).

Doug VK3UM has written two programs RF.exe and RFGraph.exe for calculating boresight fields and exclusion distances for dishes and yagi arrays. These are particularly useful for those who may be frightened of the fairly straightforward calculations. RFGraph .exe applies only to dishes.
Go to the VK3BEZ site to download these.


VK2KU - 15 October 2002