Towers & siting

Hello - I’m not sure that you will really see this but this experience changed my life even up until today. I woke up at my house the second Sunday in November 2017 and there was a loud humming. It was more of a vibration. I downloaded an app that captured decibels and it was not present so then I downloaded an app that captured Hertzs and it is the equivalent of a motorcycle or Bass coming through a wall. I live in a semi rural area that is free from city noises, etc.I have googled “the hum “ and what I am experiencing seems to line up with “the hum”. Unfortunately, this has changed my life in so many ways. Almost impossible to concentrate or read. I used to find myself blinking out of a daze due to this aweful “hum”. It began almost 10 years ago and I’m accustomed to it now. I don’t get lost in it anymore but it requires constant awareness, so there’s no rest and unfortunately, it destroyed my ability to concentrate or have quiet. I have done a little bit of research and it appears that my house is within a triangle of cell towers. I think for whatever reason the triangulation of these waves has affected the atmosphere around my house. Sometimes large flocks of birds seem to get lost in the sky above my house, and they start flying in odd, discombobulated circles. It’s almost like they’re caught in a riptide. It bothers me very much to see this phenomenon. I know that they are struggling and that something is wrong in the atmosphere around my home I live at 101 Ridgecrest Dr. Aledo TX 76008. My phone number is 682-429-8770. If I can be of any help regarding my property and circumstance or anyone else who has submitted information similar to mine, please contact me. I am happy to get involved solving the hum around my property or other people who have submitted information where I may be of service to them. No one should have to live like this. Thank you for helping the American people Jennifer

There is a cell tower between my local library and an elementary school. The proximity to the school is most concerning to me. Children's skulls are thinner and their bodies are more sensitive to all kinds of hazards (radiation, chemicals, pollution, etc). Children should be protected. The city this cell tower is in is Cottonwood Heights, UT.

PLEASE make it illegal for school grounds to have cell towers. Several schools in my area have cell towers and I can't imagine how dangerous this is for kids.

I am responding from the perspective of an 82 yr old woman that is now pretty much homebound, since 2010. We retired & bought a house in this area in 2002. My husband worked a job to help get our house paid for [which we did do]. There were plans for a cell tower to be put up on the edge of our small town. My husband petitioned the city [I am unable to petition for my self as I am unable to be around wifi or cell phones]. The city decided to refuse the cell tower, however, they put up the cell tower on private land just next to the city. When that tower went up, I struggled to just live. Was sick a lot. I am able to have a computer only because we have 3 different type of shields on the computer to protect me. Plus it is hardwired. I researched. We spent $10,000 putting shielding in the attic, painting interior walls with a lead paint, covers for the patio door & windows. Felt better then, however I was never able to go in the back yard at all & could only walk to get the mail in front of the house. Could never be outside at all for any length of time. A friend told me that 5G was sure to come into our area & all we had done to protect me would not protect me from 5G. So we began house hunting again. Every area had cell towers or boosters. Finally found a few acres 30-35 miles away. So it was sell our PAID FOR house & build a house. Of course, could not do it without getting a loan AGAIN. So at our age we have a mortgage AGAIN Even though we went from 1280 sq ft home that had a second level to a one level 3 bedroom home, with nothing extra. Difficult to move at our age. So now, we live in the country, surrounded by hills to protect me [there is some cell service here, however I have been able to tolerate it] unless our neighbors sell their property & someone builds next to us. Then I am in trouble again as I would have to deal with wifi & boosters. So I'm still not secure. We could not afford to drill a well, so my husband hauls water on an old truck to fill our cistern. It is not easy for us here. My husband is now 87 yrs old. I order our groceries & he drives 14 miles to pick them up at the store. I am unable to go away much at all. Sometimes do not leave our property for 7 weeks. There is no where safe for me to go. When my husband has had surgeries, and he has had 7 since we moved here, I have been unable to even visit him in the hospital. And if I should ever get sick I would be unable to go to a hospital for care. They have no place safe for me & their ex-rays & tests would most likely kill me. I can't go to a clinic for care either. I can't sit in a waiting room with dozens of cell phones to see a dr that doesn't know how to treat me or tells me "we don't find anything wrong with you, your tests are negative". My future is bleak. Tried to go to my grandsons wedding a few years back. Was determined to go but only lasted 15-20 min & had to leave without seeing them get married. I drove myself home, which is dangerous as when exposed to EMF's I get confused & don't make good decisions. I had a houseful of company as all my kids & some grand kids came. And I was so sick, it took 3-4 days to recover. 2 yrs ago a friend came to visit. She brought an I-pad in the house that I didn't know about. I got so sick from that episode it took me 1 1/2 years to recover. It is a terrible feeling to have to stay at home almost all the time & yet I am one of the lucky ones as I have a safe place for now. Most don't have that. If something happened to my house I would have no where to go. I would have to live in my car [which is an old 2011 Suberu with no blue tooth & etc] I would have to drive to a reclusive spot in the hills & live in the car no matter the weather & it can get -20 degrees here. My problems originated when a dentist gave me multiple mercury fillings in my mouth. Suffered for years until I had the fillings removed, but then had to try to get out the mercury & metals, as they had leached into my body. So what happens when skylink or etc. put up more satellittes that are so strong so they penetrate buildings. People like me will not be safe anywhere then. What are people like me to do? I understand the benefits for everybody but what are people like me to do? And there are so many people that have a problem but don't know that it could be their cell phone or wifi or a neighbors wifi. There is no safe place for us. There are no functions that I can attend. But most of all I am concerned about the children. Especially when they have put up cell towers near playgrounds. What about the children that cannot explain what they are feeling when they are sick. Or no one believes them when they try to explain it. And parents don't understand what is happening to their children because they don't know the dangers of EMF's. PLEASE inform the public of the dangers of EMF's & RF. They damage cells even if you don't feel it. Thank You.

I am affected by EMF 5g. My symptoms are nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, digestive issues, red skin, tingling, burning sensation, muscle aches, and pain fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depression, headaches, and impaired memory. You tell doctors they do not believe me. Never in my life had I had this trouble with any of this until it rolled out. Now there is a 5g tower right down the road from my house. Its going to continue to make us sicker and sicker. I want my health back!

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a patient and concerned member of the public. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. This letter is my personal experience of how the radio-frequency (RF) radiation (also known as wireless radiation) has effected my life and health in an extremely dreadful way. My name is Rita Jann Geeslin. I was born Texas in 1949. I am a citizen of the United States as were all my relations. My health began to seriously deteriorate in 2016 with the roll out of 4G and the activation of all the new cell phone towers to support 4G. The first huge set back in my health came on very quickly when 4G was implemented. It hit me immediately and harshly. I began to have extreme pain and debilitating fatigue. I would experience such deep pain it felt I had been lined up in front of a firing squad and riddled with bullets. I would fall down to my hands and knees and could not get back up. And then the pain became so severe I could not walk. I could not sleep, I had headaches and nausea, anxiety and began having multiple skin cancers (various Basal cell carcinoma: 2 of them had to be surgical removed, one of which has now come back, various Squamous cell carcinoma and one Melanoma which was surgically removed). I was not able to go anywhere without extreme hardship. One evening when driving home, I was screaming in pain, feeling that my brain was exploding. I saw there was a new cell tower that had been installed. That was when I knew that it was all the new radioactivity frequencies that were causing my debilitation. What came out of my mouth with those screams was I have to get out of here. I went to stay at a house in Tucson, Arizona. I had always really liked Tucson and had always felt really good there, feeling well, strong and enthusiastic. But, that was no longer the case. My neighbors wifi was so strong that I could not sleep with so much pain. One day while stopped at a traffic light. I felt a sharp, burning/shearing pain, that felt like a red hot cork screw boring its way between my ribs into my body. I was screaming in pain. I looked out the window to see what was hitting me. There was the cell phone tower. I could not control the pain or the screaming. I knew I would have to move where there was no RF in order to have any kind of quality of life left. I bought a RF detection meter and started to look around to find a place would be where I would be safe from RF. My agent suggested I rent a cabin in the White Mountains outside of Greer, Arizona. where I could turn off all the wifi and live in an RF free zone. I did that and after a few days I started feeling better and was able to take walks in the woods. I was free of all pain and able to get a good night’s sleep. I was filled with joy once again. When my rental time was finished at that cabin, I returned home to my place in Sedona. All the pain, fatigue, inability to sleep returned. I was again in a debilitated state. To test out the validity of my experience, I rented another place in the White Mountains. I again turned off all RF. Again, all the pain and extreme debilitation left me and I was able to hike in the mountains. I knew I would need to sell my home in Sedona that I loved so dearly. I knew I would need to find somewhere to live that was remote, where the neighbors where far enough away that their wifi would not effect me. After a long search, I found a place where I thought the neighbors’ wifi was far enough away and the closest cell towers were 13 miles away. I bought what is called shielding material and sewed clothing to wear when going to town. This material is woven with metal. It is a suit of armor I put on to go anywhere to protect myself from more harm. I now must wear 3 layers of this shielding material anytime I get in the car (I can only drive in cars older than 2016 because anything newer has too much EMR (electro magnetic radiation) for me to be in. Most of the time I return home feeling very sick with headache, nausea and pain. I now do not venture out of my yard unless absolutely necessary. All of my neighbors have boosted up their wifi and security to the point I receive way much of their wireless radiation around my property. I have no quality to life left and that is all because of this wireless radiation and the extreme health issues it has and is causing me. I read the statistic that 10% of the world’s population know they have this EMR (electro-magnetic-radiation) Syndrome. There are approximately 8.3 billion people on planet earth, that is 830,000,000 people who know they are adversely effected by EMR. That is almost 1 billion people that know they are being harmed by wireless radiation.

I am very concerned about wireless radiation in the United States. Our citizens must be informed of the potential health effects of EMF and RF exposure. It is the government's responsibility to research the ramifications of all these radical and rapidly changing elements in our environment, and to make the citizens aware of possible downsides to these technological advancements. I applaud your interest in listening to those who have been affected. For the last 30 years, my family has lived in an unincorporated area of Illinois outside of Chicago. My problem with sensitivity to exposure began with the COVID years, during which there was a proliferation of cell towers going up in our area. Our house was a mile from towers in four directions. We were protected from excessive exposure since we lived in a forested area. We began to research the topic, hired a building biologist, and limited our exposure to all types of radiation-emitting appliances, cell phones, smart TVs, etc. However, in 2024, the towers became visible over the tree lines. I not only had difficulty finding a place I could sleep in the house, but experienced side-effects throughout the day. We would have to move. In our desperation, we purchased a home in an area advertised as a natural fen. Then we learned the electromagnetic readings were very elevated at this site. We used our growing knowledge of all the parameters involved in choosing a safe home, paid to have prospective homes evaluated by a certified building biologist, and found a home in the "safest" location and moved in. I was free of all my symptoms for 6 months when I woke with a terrible pain in my head. Upon investigation, we saw all types of antennae and microwave equipment had been added to a guyed tower which was over a mile away. Based on meter readings and consultation with experts in the EMF field, these RF signals are directed toward our home. Once again, we are looking for more remote locations, outside of Illinois. Illinois seems bent on erecting as many towers as possible, leaving its citizens legally without a voice on the matter. If my home weren't enough of an issue, the spread of Wi-Fi now limits/prevents visits to doctors' offices, restaurants, church, and entertainment venues. Places where people congregate pose a problem as children, adults, and seniors live with tech "live" on their wrist, in their hands, and on and on. I am a 74 year-old woman. I have always been healthy. I do not take any medications. Now, if I am exposed to much wireless radiation: smart, blue-tooth, mother-boards, etc., I will wake with an excruciating burning on my head. It is not a headache, but feels as if a vise, ax or sledgehammer were taken to my head. The sensation subsides with time, after rising. OTC pain medications provide no relief. This is my most disturbing symptom. There are others. I have seen a sympathetic neurologist whose advice was to move far from our new technologies. We have shielded, grounded, removed all wireless, use a VOIP phone, drive an older model car without a 360L. You name it. Unfortunately, our lifestyle is profoundly affected. Those suffer from EMF/,RF hypersensitivity have nowhere to turn. We must continue to study the topic, isolate as much as possible, and keep moving! I trust you will listen to my story as well as those of others who are suffering from unregulated radiation.

EMFs are legit & harmful to health! Please take this seriously! You wouldnt want a cell tower or data center on your kids school!!!

Thank you for taking input from the public. I believe emf and 5g are having a negative impact on many people, many of whom are harbingers of things to come and we need to take notice and then take action by reducing the amount of radiation put out there. Some people have become so sensitive to it they cannot stay in their own houses for long before their neighbors' 5g and blutooth overwhelms their systems. At the very least there needs to be an abundance of places to escape the incessant wireless radiation...so please keep nature free of such things. We do not need cell towers everywhere, please keep the wild in wilderness...and thank you for listening.

Hello and thank you very much for soliciting feedback from the public on this topic. I'm borrowing a friend's computer to write of my experience, which has been unfortunately very troubling over the several years. I am a college graduate with a lengthy career in hospitality & customer service. As a relatively healthy individual with some chemical sensitivities, I do experience HSP (high sensory perception) and I'm deeply affected now around high powered/ high frequency microwave towers, radars, satellites and antennas. This has only recently become so problematic I must limit my time spend in city centers and in large crowds. I first began to recognize this as a critical health issue when Bluelink conjoined with an EMS tower went up adjacent to my folks house. At the start, it looked like flushing of the skin, heart racing, anxiety, cognitive impairment, tinnitus, eye problems and depression (for approx. 1 week after exposure.) Once I wore a heart rate monitor while at their place, and my resting was 120 BPM just sitting still (free of any caffeine) I also notated that my core body temp had risen by 2 degrees from 97 to 99 one evening when I had only spent 4-5 hours there. Once I made the connection it was from this installation, I began observing compounded health affects after stay overnight in densely populated areas (with hundreds or even thousands) with these instruments (mounted on rooftops of hotels) on every corner. Immediate exposure 2-12 hours would always result in heart beat irregularities, over heating/ sweating, chafing of the skin, dehydration, confusion, skin rash, watering eyes, anxiety, extreme thirst and insomnia. After 1-3 days of exposure... those symptoms expanded into eye swelling, vision changes, memory loss/ brain fog, neuralgia, reduced sight, inflamed sore gums, depression, fatigue/ malaise, restlessness and blood flow & nerve issues, mood changes and general feelings of illness. Basically the longer the exposure, the worse the symptoms.. simply put, it is cumulative. Now I must AVOID such areas where towers & antennas are packed in, and especially in DIRECT LINE of sight. That being said, as a person who loves to travel (and has always been a "city" person, this is deeply devasting as I am no longer able to put myself at risk therefore I have to be very picky and choosy now about where I spend my time and I can not just patronage these areas anymore with paying a significant price. The lingering affects of 1-5 days of continual 5G exposure often involves 1-3 weeks of recovery time for me, which I believe is due to the OXIDATIVE stress. Therefore, I strongly believe these microwave technologies are silently destroying soft tissues and cause all kinds of physical and mental illness. Especially after witnessing the RAPID deterioration of my folks, as they both appeared rather deathly and severely depressed.. their skin turned gray, and were no longer recognizable. They both got dementia at the same time and had heart * and organ problems. Additionally, they both had chronic infections. It was it clear to me based on their behavior and health, these high powered devices were slowly siphoning the life out of them and there was nothing they could do about it. Thankfully other family members were able to get them out of the house and move them after a year or two of this. One person nearly fully recovered. The other did not. I have therefore begun taking this issue VERY seriously as I can feel it's affects personally as a healthy person. However it is extremely difficult to AVOID exposure and over exposure when it is now EVERYWHERE and inundated into our daily environment. Hence, I am witnessing the impacts it has not only on humans, but also on the vegetation, trees, insects, animals and ambient heating of ground temps and local microclimates. I realize this is part of our infrastructure now, however I strongly encourage updated and rigorous regulations. In my experience LTE over 5G is safer and a better way forward for optimal human health. Additionally, I think set backs should be the gold standard for protecting all humans, especially seniors, children, nature preserves, livestock, ocean habitats, residential areas and even real estate values. Additionally, patrons of hotels and vacationers, should be able to experience rest and relaxation without harm. Or at the very minimum be able to stay in an ADA room with low emf for those with sensitivities. I could go onto explain other instances when I have been injured or affected but I think for for now, I will leave you with this.. As we continue to evolve in the future, through sustainable technology, perhaps HSP (high sensitivity perception) can be added to the ADA guidelines for safety and health requirements for building codes and hotel stays. And big tech must be held accountable to updated exposure limits for all.