I did and it has been a non-stop nightmare for 12 months. Mine was B-cell acute lymphocyte leukemia (ALL) of the Philadelphia like type. As Philadelphia like makes it a near fatal diagnosis, I had a stem cell transplant after my bone marrow had undetectable disease remaining (5 months of intense chemotherapy). I will not be flying for awhile as I am still on immune suppressants (60 – 100 times more susceptible to skin cancer). As the blood organ is likely the 2nd largest (right behind skin), I am a hybrid of 2 people, and my newborn immune system can and will attack my body (hopefully minimally).
So here comes my speculative connection between leukemia and RC air transmitters. I will never know absolutely what caused my cancer, but I have done a lot of research.
Timing: I am self-taught over the past few years. All I need to do is step out my door to fly as we live in a 20-acre restored prairie. The summer of 2021 was my summer of the most flying. I was diagnosed with cancer the 1st week of October.
I have a TriField Model TF2 EMF meter, but refused to believe the RF emissions of my radio were strong enough to matter. After all it is near 2.4 GHz, just like my cell phone, but also nearly the same frequency as microwaves. I was in total denial of any risk to RF. But the emissions are much more then a cell phone, remember that!
How I used my simulator to learn to fly – big mistake! For the most realism I chose to use my actual radio with an RF receiver dongle plugged into my laptop. Both laid on my lap as I sat on the couch. Remember that!
How I chose to actually fly with the radio. I was lazy and let my arms fall with the radio right in front of my lap while standing. More anatomically correct would be to say the radio was always in front of my Pelvic bones. Remember that!
Now I will make the connections, but 1st a brief self-conclusion about Leukemia. I suspect that most people who die of leukemia never knew it was leukemia that killed them. That is because we die of the consequences. The day I received the phone call to get to the hospital emergency room ASAP as they were waiting for me, I had been out doing a 1-hour intense bike ride and was feeling pretty good. I would later learn that I was within a week of dying. Long story short, a lung/raspatory infection (viral or bacterial), blood clot or internal hemorrhaging it what kills you. I suspect one’s leukemia death could be checked off as Covid-19 as the death symptoms will be similar. I live within an hour of a renowned major medical facility. My blood labs came back quick, as they were internal. Most out state and regional medical facilities send your blood work off to a lab, like this facility. There can be enough transit time to allow for death.
Now I will address the line items of above and the possible connection:
My timing, I did most of my flying and learning the summer of my diagnosis. But I had been using the RF dongle and simulator much more in the few years previously. It is important to note, that most cancers are from an accumulation of injuries over time (like smoking and lung cancer).
We have all heard the blanket statement that our radio transmitters are too low in frequency and power to be of any concern. When I was an early teen at church camp, the proprietor would spray a mist to keep the mosquitos away at camp fire. It was DDT. Then there was “Round Up”, so safe you could drink it. The cancer wards are full of applicators. So much for blanket statements.
I read a plethora of research studies concerning the situation, mostly on cell phones. I have no concern about my cell phone, or WIFI modem. Both transmit in pulses and at less RF than the RC transmitter. Using my TriField meter, I found the RC transmitter strength to be both continuous and at higher power than either, especially the phone. The US Government mostly references European studies, and I found nothing directly related to RC radio transmitters. One conclusion is the amount of time exposed. Although the so-called safe limits are much higher than what the RC transmitter puts out, there is a limit of exposure time. For example, 6 minutes was a common time. I have had my radio on my lap 60 minutes or more doing practice simulations. The limits also vary by country with Russia being the most restrictive.
The most comparable home appliance in both emissions power and frequency was our wall mounted built-in microwave. These are the shielded emissions and not what is going on inside the microwave. So, using my radio was basically the equivalent of having a microwave on my lap.
This is the connection that made me write this inquiry. My doctor’s mother had cervical cancer, treated with ionizing radiation. She later came down with the exact same leukemia as myself. After various sample biopsies for blasts (leukemia cells) over her pelvic bone areas, the conclusion was the radiation caused the leukemia. Similarly, my pelvic bone marrow biopsy was packed with 87% blasts (leukemia cells). If this concentration had been in my peripheral blood, I would have been long dead from clotting. As such my peripheral blood automated lab showed less than 10%, and a manual count of blasts was about 50% - still high for peripheral blood. Why were my blasts so concentrated where I put the transmitter?
I plan to get back to flying eventually, but with a whole new wardrobe. I bought 36 gage hobby craft aluminum foil off of Amazon. With my meter I determined this blocks the RF signal. I will make a full length compete circumference poncho of it. I will use a bed sheet loosely sewn around it for comfort, and Velcro to overlap and cinch the edges. I will use flexible aluminum conduit for my neck and arms, and use the same 36 gage sheet wrapped around a hockey helmet for my head. The deer don’t care what I look like, and I will look like a partially clothed knight in shinny armor. Note, I use a diversity antenna transmitter. It is the handle antenna that is of most concern. While on/near my lap I am in its direct and most powerful signal flow.
A remedy would be for the manufacturers to offer the diversity antenna (an inverted T) at the end of a telescoping tube 5 to 7 feet from our bodies while flying. It would be a choice, but that is what I want to purchase. It would put the signal field that much further from me and result in much lower power emissions to my body. And always use a wired simulator. I have no emissions with my new one. And watch your exposure time – flying short flights looks much safer.
This is a concern that needs RC community observation and communication (policing). We are too small for the government to care. Pressure on the manufacturers to get the antennas away from our bodies is the goal.
So here comes my speculative connection between leukemia and RC air transmitters. I will never know absolutely what caused my cancer, but I have done a lot of research.
Timing: I am self-taught over the past few years. All I need to do is step out my door to fly as we live in a 20-acre restored prairie. The summer of 2021 was my summer of the most flying. I was diagnosed with cancer the 1st week of October.
I have a TriField Model TF2 EMF meter, but refused to believe the RF emissions of my radio were strong enough to matter. After all it is near 2.4 GHz, just like my cell phone, but also nearly the same frequency as microwaves. I was in total denial of any risk to RF. But the emissions are much more then a cell phone, remember that!
How I used my simulator to learn to fly – big mistake! For the most realism I chose to use my actual radio with an RF receiver dongle plugged into my laptop. Both laid on my lap as I sat on the couch. Remember that!
How I chose to actually fly with the radio. I was lazy and let my arms fall with the radio right in front of my lap while standing. More anatomically correct would be to say the radio was always in front of my Pelvic bones. Remember that!
Now I will make the connections, but 1st a brief self-conclusion about Leukemia. I suspect that most people who die of leukemia never knew it was leukemia that killed them. That is because we die of the consequences. The day I received the phone call to get to the hospital emergency room ASAP as they were waiting for me, I had been out doing a 1-hour intense bike ride and was feeling pretty good. I would later learn that I was within a week of dying. Long story short, a lung/raspatory infection (viral or bacterial), blood clot or internal hemorrhaging it what kills you. I suspect one’s leukemia death could be checked off as Covid-19 as the death symptoms will be similar. I live within an hour of a renowned major medical facility. My blood labs came back quick, as they were internal. Most out state and regional medical facilities send your blood work off to a lab, like this facility. There can be enough transit time to allow for death.
Now I will address the line items of above and the possible connection:
My timing, I did most of my flying and learning the summer of my diagnosis. But I had been using the RF dongle and simulator much more in the few years previously. It is important to note, that most cancers are from an accumulation of injuries over time (like smoking and lung cancer).
We have all heard the blanket statement that our radio transmitters are too low in frequency and power to be of any concern. When I was an early teen at church camp, the proprietor would spray a mist to keep the mosquitos away at camp fire. It was DDT. Then there was “Round Up”, so safe you could drink it. The cancer wards are full of applicators. So much for blanket statements.
I read a plethora of research studies concerning the situation, mostly on cell phones. I have no concern about my cell phone, or WIFI modem. Both transmit in pulses and at less RF than the RC transmitter. Using my TriField meter, I found the RC transmitter strength to be both continuous and at higher power than either, especially the phone. The US Government mostly references European studies, and I found nothing directly related to RC radio transmitters. One conclusion is the amount of time exposed. Although the so-called safe limits are much higher than what the RC transmitter puts out, there is a limit of exposure time. For example, 6 minutes was a common time. I have had my radio on my lap 60 minutes or more doing practice simulations. The limits also vary by country with Russia being the most restrictive.
The most comparable home appliance in both emissions power and frequency was our wall mounted built-in microwave. These are the shielded emissions and not what is going on inside the microwave. So, using my radio was basically the equivalent of having a microwave on my lap.
This is the connection that made me write this inquiry. My doctor’s mother had cervical cancer, treated with ionizing radiation. She later came down with the exact same leukemia as myself. After various sample biopsies for blasts (leukemia cells) over her pelvic bone areas, the conclusion was the radiation caused the leukemia. Similarly, my pelvic bone marrow biopsy was packed with 87% blasts (leukemia cells). If this concentration had been in my peripheral blood, I would have been long dead from clotting. As such my peripheral blood automated lab showed less than 10%, and a manual count of blasts was about 50% - still high for peripheral blood. Why were my blasts so concentrated where I put the transmitter?
I plan to get back to flying eventually, but with a whole new wardrobe. I bought 36 gage hobby craft aluminum foil off of Amazon. With my meter I determined this blocks the RF signal. I will make a full length compete circumference poncho of it. I will use a bed sheet loosely sewn around it for comfort, and Velcro to overlap and cinch the edges. I will use flexible aluminum conduit for my neck and arms, and use the same 36 gage sheet wrapped around a hockey helmet for my head. The deer don’t care what I look like, and I will look like a partially clothed knight in shinny armor. Note, I use a diversity antenna transmitter. It is the handle antenna that is of most concern. While on/near my lap I am in its direct and most powerful signal flow.
A remedy would be for the manufacturers to offer the diversity antenna (an inverted T) at the end of a telescoping tube 5 to 7 feet from our bodies while flying. It would be a choice, but that is what I want to purchase. It would put the signal field that much further from me and result in much lower power emissions to my body. And always use a wired simulator. I have no emissions with my new one. And watch your exposure time – flying short flights looks much safer.
This is a concern that needs RC community observation and communication (policing). We are too small for the government to care. Pressure on the manufacturers to get the antennas away from our bodies is the goal.
