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RF measurements: Microwave News Article Archive (2004 - )

July 12, 2025

“Temporal Change of Outdoor RF-EMF Levels in Four European Countries: a Microenvironmental Measurement Study,” Environment Research, July 11, 2025. “Our measurements of RF-EMF outdoor exposure levels [in four countries] do not indicate change in exposure levels between 2016 and 2023 despite an increase in mobile data traffic by a factor of eight in Western Europe.”

March 9, 2018

“Comparison of RF EMF Exposure Levels in Different Everyday Microenvironments in an International Context,” Environment International, May 2018.

“Exposure levels tended to increase with increasing urbanity. In most microenvironments downlink from mobile phone base stations is the most relevant contributor.” One exception: Australia where broadcast radiation was #1.

March 3, 2014

“Extensive Frequency Selective Measurements of RF in Outdoor Environments Performed with a Novel Mobile Monitoring System,” Bioelectromagnetics, April 2014.

“The median power density was 0.0016 μW/cm² in rural areas, 0.027 μW/cm² in urban areas, and 0.24 μW/cm² in city areas. In urban and city areas, base stations for mobile phones were clearly the dominating sources of exposure.” From the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority.

November 30, 2012

Buddy, Can You Spare $25,000?

EPRI, the research arm of the electric utility industry, has just published what might be a very useful report. Unfortunately, most of us will never get to see it.

The report is an evaluation of consumer-grade RF exposure meters —the type of instrument you might use to measure radiation levels from a cell tower or a smart meter. In a short abstract, which is publicly available, EPRI states, "Consumers need to recognize that each [RF...