Thursday, 11 February 2016
There’s a big reason those enormous AM radio transmitter towers are surrounded in fences: touching them can be incredibly dangerous on account of the enormous amounts of power pushed through them. A video on Facebook by the Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club shows what happens if you short out one of these towers using a car’s jumper cable: you can hear the radio station in the electricity arc. This happens because AM radio’s signal is adjusted up and down dynamically to indicate the highs and lows of sound waves. If you cause a gap in the power line to the antenna the electricity…
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