{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5411","number":"5411","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-18T04:00Z","body":"I am submitting as an individual with several years of hands-on radiofrequency field-measurement experience in Flushing, Queens, New York City. I respond to Questions 2, 7, and 8.\n\nQ2 — Perspective: I am a citizen measurer, not a clinician, researcher, or industry professional. Everything below comes from my own field measurements with a handheld GQ EMF-390 multi-field meter (manufacturer-stated RF range 10 MHz–10 GHz, three-axis sensor, peak-hold on), not from peer-reviewed research. I make no claims about health effects; my contribution is measurement methodology and real-world observation.\n\nQ7 — How real-world exposure is measured in practice: I measure with a handheld GQ EMF-390 multi-field meter (manufacturer-stated RF range 10 MHz–10 GHz, three-axis sensor), peak-hold on. Across several evening sessions at home in Flushing, live RF power-density readings sat between 2.3 and 19 mW/m², while the meter's peak-hold repeatedly captured short electric-field spikes far above the live number — 77, 100, 139 and 397 V/m, and 1002 V/m in one session; a daytime outdoor session captured 725 V/m. The device's spectrum view labeled the dominant activity \"WiFi/Phone,\" but I was unable to verify the specific source of the repeated peak spikes — their origin is unidentified. Two practical observations: (1) the peak number and the live number on the same meter, seconds apart, can differ by orders of magnitude, and compliance-style time-averaged measurements report only the latter; (2) there is no public dataset capturing what a person experiences at home or at a bus stop with a phone in hand, versus what a compliance measurement at a fixed distance, height, and averaging time reports.\n\nQ8 — How exposure could be measured better: (a) HHS should publish a standardized, low-cost field-measurement protocol — instrument class, detector, resolution bandwidth, sweep settings, and averaging time — so that citizen measurements are comparable across people and places; (b) both peak and time-averaged values should be reported and disclosed side by side, since the public only ever sees one number; (c) HHS should maintain a public repository for citizen-collected measurement data with location and timestamp, so real-world exposure maps can be built from thousands of independent readings instead of relying solely on carrier compliance filings.\n\nQ18 — One clear request: recognize citizen-measured RF exposure data as a complement to compliance data, not a replacement. The people who live under the antennas are willing to do the measuring; what is missing is a standard that makes their measurements count.\n\nSources: my own field measurements as described above. No medical or personal identifying information is included, per the notice's instructions.","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5411","tags":["exposure-places","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"e12ee22ef5f18139170022409a40a9bfc7f3c6ee0187d09e17599791821b94de","slug":"exposure-places-comment-5411","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5411","body_sha256":"84a620c04abad28235553723c7b509a109cce18e7f08546cb91598724c3bea6d","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"research","topics":[{"id":"research","evidence":"HHS should publish a standardized, low-cost field-measurement protocol"},{"id":"standards","evidence":"both peak and time-averaged values should be reported and disclosed side by side"},{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"The people who live under the antennas are willing to do the measuring"}],"summary":"Presents personal handheld RF measurements and contrasts peak readings with live readings, explicitly making no health-effect claim. Requests standardized citizen measurement protocols, side-by-side peak and averaged reporting, and a public exposure-data repository to complement compliance measurements.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-27T19:20:49Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"7d4bd86c2bda70d1079830f0d9b6508071a3c2fff084c36d3649c6455a9f7ec6","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["research","standards","infrastructure"],"primary_topic":"research","forum_title":"Presents personal handheld RF measurements and contrasts peak readings with live readings, explicitly mak…"}