Safety Distance Calculations for Macrocell Mobile Base Station and on Site Radiation Measurements

Wireless mobile communication networks have become essential for human life. A great booming and huge investments are devoted to develop the services without taking into considerations the health effect of electromagnetic radiations of the base stations concerning with these services. Base stations for wireless mobile communication have brought Electromagnetic Field (EMF) sources to the permanent residences of people. A global increase in the level of electromagnetic background has taken place leading to its continuing presence in the environment. Cellular mobile radio communications have developed rapidly in Egypt and are one of the most actively growing sectors of the national economy. Many studies were made in this field and they did not prove that there is no effect for the EMF radiated from the mobile base stations. So, in this paper a procedure will be proposed to calculate the safety distance that the human beings can exposure from macro-cell of mobile base station. An on field measurement has been done to confirm this safety distance.