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Title: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Monsterlover on December 13, 2020, 02:34:24 PM Seems that if you touch one and are also touching the ground (as in standing on the ground) the tower will conduct through you, cooking all your nerve endings while you, at the same time, hear the broadcast inside your head.
Watch these Russian scientists at work turning weeds and grass into what amounts to a plasma speaker. https://youtu.be/b9UO9tn4MpI Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: ducpainter on December 13, 2020, 03:36:38 PM Scientists my ass...
Hey ya'll hold my beer and watch this. [laugh] Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Monsterlover on December 13, 2020, 03:42:46 PM Scientists my ass... Hey ya'll hold my beer and watch this. [laugh] Not a fence or warning sign to be seen there [laugh] Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: kopfjäger on December 13, 2020, 03:49:35 PM Self correcting.
Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: herm on December 13, 2020, 06:00:51 PM I'm suspicious..... I've been hands on with a number of radio towers in my life without a similar experience.
Not in Russia of course.. [roll] [roll] Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Monsterlover on December 13, 2020, 06:10:09 PM I'm suspicious..... I've been hands on with a number of radio towers in my life without a similar experience. Not in Russia of course.. [roll] [roll] https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/02/11/what-happens-if-you-short-circuit-a-radio-tower-is-amazing/amp/ Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Speeddog on December 14, 2020, 06:24:04 AM I'm suspicious..... I've been hands on with a number of radio towers in my life without a similar experience. Not in Russia of course.. [roll] [roll] I an currently in Herm's camp on this. The alleged configuration of an AM antenna in Russia doesn't strike me as credible enough to assume it's standard practice. The world is a strange place, so I'm interested! Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: herm on December 14, 2020, 10:14:30 AM Maybe the Russians aren't grounding or insulating their antenna?
Never mind how I know this :-X :-X, but if you touch the un insulated metal post where an antenna screws on to a VHF radio and key it up, you'll get burned.... [roll] Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Popeye the Sailor on December 15, 2020, 06:42:19 AM You think the Russians bother to install things safely? [laugh]
We couldn't be at the facility during satellite fueling. We had to stay in the "hotel" for "safety." The hotel was within the blast radius [laugh] Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Monsterlover on December 15, 2020, 06:49:34 AM [laugh]
I'm sure you felt safe. Probably explains the alcohol consumption levels. Title: Re: Why you shouldn't touch AM radio towers Post by: Speeddog on December 15, 2020, 07:09:17 AM Well, I suppose 'technically' you're safer further away but still being inside the blast radius would be of concern.
I think 'simple but effective' is the foundation of Russian hardware philosophy and it does usually work. Perhaps they use insulators at ground level as that will work just fine for the tower and a pesky meatbag short is self-correcting so hey ship it. Perhaps in the western world we put the insulators 10 feet off the ground and if a meatbag shorts that he had to climb up to do it. |