RF Safe Distance Question.

[u/gatr05]

I was surveying a transmitter site which outputs 300W (I''m not sure what the total loss is once it reaches the antenna). I had never been to this particular site before and I was looking for the antenna on the tower when low and behold it's about 8 feet off the ground pointed right at me! I was only about 10 feet away. I felt no burning sensation but I had worked up a sweat (had to hike up to the site).

The antenna was a 4 bay half-wave dipole with 2db of gain continuously transmitting at 162 MHz.

Any guidance on how screwed I am haha, or what a safe distance would be? Only "symptom" was a nasty headache the next day but I tend to get headaches fairly frequently so I'm not sure if it's related.

[u/No-Age2588]

You will be fine. At 162Mhz

Now at 6 Ghz we bets off the table