When I say spend a week away, I mean to completely and utterly avoid
the tower and area during this time.  Just like medicine it takes
awhile for the body to recover from a long term annoyance.  It may be
that after a short time away it'll disappear, then when she returns
it'll take a few days to reappear, which could indicate other
environmental factors (chemicals, fumes, etc.

Treat it as a holiday.

-Adam

On 9/6/06, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might try using a piezo microphone to see if her head is vibrating
> in response to some external noise.  Have her bite hard in it and not
> move, record through the human hearing range, and then play it back to
> her loudly while running it through a software filter to see if you
> can pick out the frequency.
>
> If earplugs don't work, and her head isn't vibrating, then I don't see
> a way the cilia in the ear are moving, meaning that there's no audio
> component, even though she percieves it as an audio annoyance.
>
> Since it's localized to the tower, then I'd suuggest having her spend
> a week at a friend's house away from the tower and see if it occurs at
> other locations/times.  If not, then probably the best option is to
> move - it's going to take longer and be more aggravating to get the
> tower people to change than it's worth.
>
> If she does have the problem at other times/places, then it becomes
> interestingly more complex.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 9/6/06, Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > > ^If it is high pitched then it can be attenuated by a good set
> > > of ear protection.  Preferably a combination of expanding ear
> > > plugs and some wrap around headgear
> >
> > She has tried earplugs + earmuffs, no joy
> >
> > Also, most people will find that you get used to a constant noise. She's
> > tried music and white noise (one of those "subliminal message" ***
> > tapes with the waves and the seagulls") to try and block it out
> >
> > Unfortunately that wasn't a complete success because the only tape
> > she could find was a New Agey one with a choir and other
> > distractions. I could make a white noise CD or mp3 though, that
> > hadn't occurred to me until now
> >
> > > How far away from the antenna must she get to lose the audio ?
> >
> > Good question. Don't know. Poor answer
> >
> > Having another chat with her tomorrow
> >
> > *** not the "You will hear an irritating and inescapable tone" one ;-)
> >
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