We'd spend hours hiking up beautiful mountains, only to find ourselves surrounded by cellphone towers or military radar installations, and have to go back to the drawing board.
Similarly, the board believed that a hang-glider or para-motor would be radar significant and that conditions precluded them, as they did para-gliders or parascenders.
As the Environmental report makes clear the emissions from the radar are many times lower than the safe levels set by the National Radiological Protection Board.
Campaign volunteers also went to work under the radar in several local campaigns last year -- including the Charlotte mayor's race and school board races in populous Wake County -- to elect friendly Democrats and identify new voters.