Theoretical Evaluation of Electromagnetic Emissions from GSM900 Mobile Telephony Base Stations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip-Palestine
Date
2016-04-21
Authors
Lahham, Adnan
Abu Alkbash, Jehad
ALMasri, Hussien
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Abstract
Theoretical assessments of power density in far-field conditions were used to evaluate the levels of environmental electromagnetic
frequencies from selected GSM900 macrocell base stations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Assessments were based on calculating
the power densities using commercially available software (RF-Map from Telstra Research Laboratories—Australia).
Calculations were carried out for single base stations with multiantenna systems and also for multiple base stations with multiantenna
systems at 1.7m above the ground level. More than 100 power density levels were calculated at different locations
around the investigated base stations. These locations include areas accessible to the general public (schools, parks, residential
areas, streets and areas around kindergartens). The maximum calculated electromagnetic emission level resulted from a single
site was 0.413 μWcm−2 and found at Hizma town near Jerusalem. Average maximum power density from all single sites was
0.16 μWcm−2. The results of all calculated power density levels in 100 locations distributed over the West Bank and Gaza were
nearly normally distributed with a peak value of ~0.01% of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Protection’s limit recommended for general public. Comparison between calculated and experimentally measured value of
maximum power density from a base station showed that calculations overestimate the actual measured power density by ~27%.