There have been many stories in The Argus about radio masts and concerns about health issues.

But if there are more base station masts, the amount of transmitted power required and produced by the handsets used to communicate, whether they be mobile phones or Tetra handhelds, is reduced.

This would benefit everyone using the radio system by reducing their exposure to high power radio waves generated close to the body by the handsets.

This is where the harmful effects, if any, of radio waves are likely to be most pronounced, rather than from a radio mast base station on a pole in the air.

-Matthew Wilson, Saltdean