I love the fact that AM radio towers have balls of steel.
@Uncleharkinian5 ай бұрын
Once we got struck really hard by lighting, that’s what the ball s are for, so it can jump to ground, so I pulled up and went over and there was two black soot marks on them like a cartoon! I took a photo and for a solid week I was going around telling people “my balls got struck by lightning” “wanna see a picture of my balls?”
@josie40655 ай бұрын
@@Uncleharkinian😎
@RobertCraft-re5sf5 ай бұрын
@@Uncleharkinian I saw other ones that used a ring inside of another ring
@Uncleharkinian5 ай бұрын
@@RobertCraft-re5sf so that’s actually a transformer! That’s how we get power to the lights on top with out grounding the tower with a conduit
@maverick51175 ай бұрын
@Uncleharkinian that's right. It's called Austin transformer and is used so RF doesn't go back to the power supply of the lights.
@kevintucker33544 ай бұрын
Love how the voice frequencies come through in the arch
@ronbeck24764 ай бұрын
Watch the one where they do it with plants.
@dennis81964 ай бұрын
The connection is good on the grounded ball and screw, but the tip of the screw is partial, so it forms a diode like joint. It's demodulating the AM and because the field strength is so strong it's able to make the screw vibrate allowing you hear it. The connection is poor so the thin metal is glowing owing to high resistance at the tip of the screw. The rusty nail effect can also cause the reverse to happen. In situations where a sheet of metal like a roof on a commercial building or where a long metal fence is attached to more metal with a nail or bolt that has corroded a little can sometimes cause interference to SW radio users nearby. The large metal surface area is enough to act as an antenna in the same way the antenna does in this video.
@adamjohnson43114 ай бұрын
Hahaha yeah that should be made more clear that we're hearing the broadcast across the arc
@ASSASSYN4 ай бұрын
Yeah I heard it!
@Greeko_Poloz4 ай бұрын
@@dennis8196I have no idea what half of that means but it is awesome.
@annacalise83364 ай бұрын
This stuff must have been so incredible when it was being invented/ discovered cause its STILL mind-blowingly cool today!
@6nosis3 ай бұрын
THEY STILL LYING TO US.. THEY ARE HIDING TRUE HUMAN BOŇD SHATTERING.
@MaaZy_3 ай бұрын
I don’t think it was “that” incredible when it was invented as much as nowadays! Because I truly believe that there are a valuable information got lost or kept confidential.
@ChuckBeefOG3 ай бұрын
Why do you think they banned AM? So you couldn’t pull power out of the air for free. This is what Tesla always talked about. Energy in the ether.
@Cyberdemon19853 ай бұрын
That is a reflector element for the other radiating element designed to propagate signal towards a set direction and distance.
@erichkaanikin35553 ай бұрын
It doesn’t fit that the first tower is not connected to anything because it’s insulated, and the other tower is the same, yet goes on to say the left ball on the first is receiving energy from the other tower which is the same (huh?). Then the left ball on the first tower receives “some” energy. That’s three contradictory statements which all cannot be true at the same time. 😳
@akonitony23 ай бұрын
This explains why the wires in my neck pick up radio signals every now and then. Broke my neck in the Army in 1984 and had it fused.
@bluewater823 ай бұрын
This is one of those moments in life where I witnessed something totally unexpected and it brought a legitimate smile to my face. Thank you.
@teaciusd24864 ай бұрын
My grandfather said he could hear music playing from a local radio station in the barbed wire fencing.
@garymericano4 ай бұрын
I always feel like i can hear radio through the shower head, but it's possible that i'm just schizotypal so i haven't asked any of the other people in my head if they hear it too, if its just me that would be embarrassing!
@williamchaplick42274 ай бұрын
@@garymericano.. perfectly👌normal my friend 😉 😉...........😜
@m0redread4 ай бұрын
Some of the early US radio stations were CRAZY before they got regulated.
@100GTAGUY4 ай бұрын
@@garymericano i get how you feel man, theres a transformer in one particular area in my town that i can hear giving off a rising and falling high pitch sound of sorts and trying to tell/explain to other people who cant hear it is frustrating lol. It kinda sounds similar to a capacitor charging up, but also the inverse. I first noticed it while driving, figured it was some weird RF interference as i did have my radio on. Happened again another time, radio off. Then i heard it on foot finally, and i didn't have a single electronic device on me phone or otherwise. Narrowed it down to the transformer on the pole. Walked my dog past it, i heard it but my dog didnt even react. So i feel a lil extra out there when other people standing next to me cant hear it either lol Another weird thing is street lights always seemingly seem to go off and on as i approach and walk away, not all of em but enough to where i noticed and started walking past them at random times and about ten of them do it every time. Not sure if its like a cooldown period or something, but its very coincedental they go off and on as if on que. Maybe they have motion sensors that are like wired bass ackwards or something? Turn off when motion is detected kinda thing
@TerryJonesPrinterRepairs4 ай бұрын
@100GTAGUY Or your a powerful Warlock unrealised.
@chrismehl16074 ай бұрын
You can hear the broadcast in the ark, that's wild 😂😮🤯
@The_DuMont_Network4 ай бұрын
Arc. It's not a boat.
@blumac98014 ай бұрын
@@The_DuMont_Network😂😂
@TheAnnoyingBoss4 ай бұрын
Yeah noah intalled a radio in that unit
@JamesReedy4 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s AM radio so really not much required to demodulate that…
@TheFlyingKiwiNZ4 ай бұрын
Don't think it can go back in time to Noah lol
@jimturpin4 ай бұрын
I recall touching an AM tower from a long since abandoned station. Somebody had taken the matching tank circuit so the tower was no longer grounded and just sitting on its insulator. Anyhow, the tower kept accumulating one heck of a wind charge when the wind blew and when I touched the tower it popped me so hard I thought somebody had shot me.
@treasureplanet90824 ай бұрын
Oh yes! Static charge buildup on insulated verticals can be quite a problem. A friend of mine had a HyTower vertical that occasionally blew holes in the insulation of RG-8 coax.
@Rocketman880022 ай бұрын
@jimturpin, I worked in the mobile radio shop and we had an antenna tower with RG-8 coming into the shop for bench testing the transmitters. On a windy day that unterminated coax would pop at a fast rate. That huge capacitor discharged with a fury!
@AlysaDunn-r6oАй бұрын
sounds like the time I got shocked by an ignition coil on a V6 engine
@Hopeless_and_ForlornАй бұрын
Large CRT"s from old television sets could also give you a jolt if you touched the anode connector.
@oldjarhead386Ай бұрын
@@Hopeless_and_ForlornI got knocked out by one in HS.
@billhickerson93824 ай бұрын
Love the fact that you can hear the modulation from the other radio tower!
@fasnuf4 ай бұрын
Shows the power of resonance. You can also hear the transmission through the arc being created. Awesome
@raymondfryar1533Ай бұрын
Wow, you're right.
@CyanPlaysR0blox14974 күн бұрын
And I made an "AM stations video" and "AM stations #2" videos
@aaronhumphrey20094 ай бұрын
I had a Crystal AM radio that used no batteries. You could hear lots of noises on it , lighting from storms miles away, passing cars , electric motors, etc.
@unbearifiedbear18854 ай бұрын
In a world where literal *rocks* can send and receive radio broadcasts, how tf do we claim magic isn't real? 😂
@darrellmcever3404 ай бұрын
I had a crystal radio, I used it to listen to Houston Colt 45's baseball games. ;-)
@MeEncantaKiley4 ай бұрын
I heard the sound of a woman yelling “no no help! Can anybody hear me” and then static
@FirstNameLastName-dc5tl4 ай бұрын
@@unbearifiedbear1885you think that’s crazy you should check out Billy Carson. His break down on rock technology is insane.
@PsRohrbaugh4 ай бұрын
@@MeEncantaKiley💀
@PraxZimmerman5 ай бұрын
I bet the FCC would be real happy with me using a 3kw transmitter as a welder 😂
@davidg42884 ай бұрын
That little demonstration caused a LOT of interference, but he didn't do it for long. This kind of thing (arcing) does happen by accident, people will complain to the station and they'll fix it long before the FCC gets involved.
@redriver65414 ай бұрын
They don't care. They're pretty understanding people. Lol.
@davidg42884 ай бұрын
@@redriver6541 Well I suppose if a 3 letter Federal agency is going to visit me the FCC would be one of the less worrying ones.
@mnw18714 ай бұрын
Nobody listens to AM anymore. FCC enforcement would never know.
@SpicyTexan644 ай бұрын
Not since we lost Rush Limbaugh @@mnw1871
@josephcapps64164 ай бұрын
When I was a young teenager in the early 70's ... we lived in Nashville TN about 1/2mi from WLAC transmitting towers. With certain weather conditions, I would hear WLAC from my stereo speakers in the afternoons for a few minutes, when the radio was not turned on.
@TatsuZZmage4 ай бұрын
My grandmother lived near some towers in Oregon and speakers on her stereo would get some signal off em.
@bashkillszombies4 ай бұрын
That's pretty cool, you should have tried to use some of that power emission for work!
@santiagoschaerer4 ай бұрын
Si quedaba en posición tape se infiltrada las frecuencias por los cabezales magnéticos
@Michael-y3l9m4 ай бұрын
Thats so rad dude.
@johnniewelbornjr.8940Ай бұрын
Wow, I remember WLAC sooooo well! Both the AM and the FM... I lived up in Clarksville for most of my younger life and worked in radio and voice over production in the region for many, many years. Cool to see these old call letters out of the blue. :)
@Lordmattg4 ай бұрын
This is like top 10 in terms of cool and interesting shorts on KZbin. Thank you.
@LogicalNiko4 ай бұрын
Back in 2000 I worked in a startup that was temporarily in a very small low cost office building. Plugging in any type of audio equipment ended up with an AM sports radio station being received on any recording, speakers, headphones, etc.
@bashkillszombies4 ай бұрын
That was me, sorry bro. I wanted to listen to sports at work and didn't know how to pick a frequency, so I just chose "YES".
@henrydhamster10932 ай бұрын
Reminds me of when CB radio was popular and people would use illegally adapted ham radio amplifiers. You could hear their signal bleed over onto anything with a speaker. It was annoying at the time.
@1234567890CAB4 ай бұрын
This is similar to how hold music was invented. A business that was next to or near a radio station had faulty phone wiring so that when someone calling the business was put on hold, the wiring in the business would pickup the signal from the radio station and the caller could hear the music.
@DaSlotho4 ай бұрын
Wow
@mikelowry19044 ай бұрын
Is this actually true? It makes sense
@DaSlotho4 ай бұрын
@@mikelowry1904 well when ya think bout it it does make sense
@randymcarn4 ай бұрын
I recently saw a video where a couple of guys did the same thing but they used a hotdog instead of a screw and they touched the tower directly with the hotdog.
@damienrodriguez32883 ай бұрын
Now that os a fun fact sir! 🎩 off to you
@glados47654 ай бұрын
Those metal balls on sticks are for lightning protection. AM towers travel extremely far compared to FM. To accomplish this, the entire tower is the antenna, and the entire antenna has to be supplied power. AM towers are usually on a concrete block like that to prevent grounding the tower. The human body's cells contain ions like sodium, potassium, and chloride that can conduct electricity, as well as us being mostly water. Those warning signs exist for a reason.
@commenter47994 ай бұрын
I have to disagree... the towers don't move, lol. Bah dum, chshhh.
@titaniusanglesmith96903 ай бұрын
I'm sorry but you don't seem to explain much about it. It's supplied power. It's insulated. So how is whatever you're talking about "accomplished"? How the balls protect from lightning strikes? Or if you're talking about AM's greater distance over FM tower, what's the difference between the two? Idk if it's me or not but your comment is interesting but confusing
@commenter47993 ай бұрын
@titaniusanglesmith9690 cellphone towers operate on much higher frequencies than AM, so they require much shorter antennas. Thus, the tower only holds the antennas. He's saying the entire tower acts as an antenna, which I haven't confirmed, so i don't know. The tower has to be insulated, or the current would flow back to the source through the ground, which would ruin the signal. Having a giant metal antenna in an open field is a good way to catch lightning, so the balls are separated by a gap that the voltage from the signal is too low for the current to arc across, but lightning can. So, it allows a path to ground without damaging things. AM operates on lower frequencies than FM, and longer wavelengths travel further.
@t.bickle3 ай бұрын
touched a grounding cable once and a light came shooting down the cable and singed my thumb just as i yanked my hand back and saw a fricking glowing thumb print where my finger was
@wildterk66313 ай бұрын
It's free energy!
@KikoValleyMan11 ай бұрын
Is the sound coming through that arc?
@redsquarejay11 ай бұрын
You heard right
@tonyzone89995 ай бұрын
Everything is transmitted in light of u think about it
@kuppih49335 ай бұрын
Yes. Radio waves are electromagnetic radiation, so basically anything magnetic in the correct polarity in the vicinity of the bigger tower you see in the distance could have this same effect. The arc is created by positively charged electrons connecting to ground (negative charge), and the frequency at which this arc is created, makes up the sound from the radio waves
@JasmineShedd5 ай бұрын
@@kuppih4933 electrons are negative charge...
@gullermoneira84144 ай бұрын
Parece que alcansa demodular algo de sonido proveniente de la estacion que esta encendida
@MattyIcecubes12 күн бұрын
I'll never forget Dayton, OH 1120 AM. Back in the late 90's they played metal in the evenings. They played HEAVY stuff too. Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Suffocation etc. I was into that back then and was on cloud 9 whenever I listened.
@dilloncall13394 ай бұрын
That is dope, my dad has been a biomedical technician for almost 50 years and he's taught me some cool things but... I'm going to be honest this might be one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time
@lmbcars4 ай бұрын
Looks like mr Tesla was on to something with that wireless power transmission thing lol
@devinmccloud4 ай бұрын
You clearly don't understand Tesla if you believe it's going through the air.
@ghostyboy94694 ай бұрын
@@devinmccloudwhat’s it going thru? A booty hole? 🕳️
@ferrumignis4 ай бұрын
No, wireless power transmission was Tesla's biggest failure, and this video just shows how impractical it would be.
@dangeary21344 ай бұрын
You three obviously say no energy can travel through air, much less empty vacuum. How many of you used a cell phone to reply to the comment???
@Mastermindyoung144 ай бұрын
@@dangeary2134so we all need a bunch of juice, let's energize the air the same way seen in this video... Just never touch the ground ever again and we have wireless energy! 😀
@PINKBOY100611 ай бұрын
Thats amazing, who needs a diode when an arc can just be power modulated to hear the station 😂
@joebonomono50784 ай бұрын
You should be able to buy a radio that does thiat, just arcing away the latest tunes.
@21area214 ай бұрын
@@joebonomono5078 you're looking at one. Probably only a couple million
@spvillano4 ай бұрын
@@joebonomono5078 they make them. Plasma speakers. Google them.
@213BRANDONP4 ай бұрын
Um spark gap radio
@PINKBOY10064 ай бұрын
@@213BRANDONP yes, but generally thats relegated to transmitters only. And those transmitters have been outlawed since the 30’s
@kaska19674 ай бұрын
I wish I knew more about this stuff. Fascinating.
@jackspringer92833 ай бұрын
ARRL. Ham Radio license Manual., this example might be found in the chapters about Radio Wave Propagation, Antennas and Feed Lines The book is considered the Ham Bible 😊😊
@kaska19673 ай бұрын
I appreciate that and I will look it over. Thank you.
@DGroenenberg3 ай бұрын
Tesla's view on wireless energy has some overlap i think.
@Napster602 ай бұрын
You can think of antennas like tuning forks set to a frequency (or close to the frequencies you want to use) based on their size/ length. With a similar tuning fork screaming a few hundred yards away. It will vibrate the other one.
@ruger84124 күн бұрын
I seen this a dozen times & i still watch every time
@karolstruck982217 күн бұрын
Holy crap. I knew that transmitting through the air head energy. But that's a whole lot of energy. Thank you for the demonstration.
@Electromag504 ай бұрын
Oh I love this! Consider that you are only receiving a fraction of the power from neighboring transmitter. My intuitive sense tells me that you are seeing about 250W or less at your spark gap. 10KW is a phenomenal amount of power. Thank you for posting this
@mrnmrn13 ай бұрын
Now imagine a 2MW (2000kW) transmitter. Hungary, Radio Kossuth @ Solt, 540kHz.
@jamienleah7324 ай бұрын
Hearing the brocast in the arc just makes me love this feald .. some guys call us sparkie.. lol
@ARSZLB2 ай бұрын
Obviously you didn't have to pass English class to join that profession
@noneneed4 ай бұрын
It all just starts playing Coast to Coast with George Noory
@noneneed4 ай бұрын
@YerDaddY. oh, you're an O.G. listener. Ya, we used to listen to him back when I was a kid, and my friends and I would camp out in the yard so we could stay up all night and play flashlight tag. Then we got older and started blasting George around the camp/ bonfire when we were stoned and buzzed up in the woods.
@ronstrong95604 ай бұрын
Strange radio show, that after midnight am radio show.
@noneneed4 ай бұрын
@YerDaddY. dude, yes, as I'm sure you know, Halloween is also known as a "HARVEST PARTY" in certain green areas of the nation. I grew up in the Northern California Emerald Triangle, so our harvest parties always got wild and there would be like 10-30 people chilling around a fire stoned off their ass's blasting it and arguing about aliens and ghosts and shit.
@PsRohrbaugh4 ай бұрын
There are reruns of art bell's broadcasts on KZbin. Every now and then I'll listen for nostalgia.
@brandonspears20284 ай бұрын
The nostalgia. My friend's dad drinking in the basement, listening to short wave radio, talking about aliens walking among us.
@bwhogАй бұрын
Ball lightening arrestor. I never realized that these passive towers could have that much current in them! Also interesting that the current was focused at the tower end of the connection and not the ground. Electrode negative! My dad was a radio engineer. He lived and breathed this stuff. Wish he would have pointed this aspect out to me. Too bad he's gone or I know he'd get a huge grin watching this video from memories he had of his career. My dad had a coworker who used to work on AM installations in the midwest. One day he had to go up and replace a beacon light. So he hopped on the tower and got ready to climb. His wife asked him, "Aren't you going to give me a kiss first?" So he leaned out and kissed here, knowing full well what would happen! That was one kiss she never forgot!
@SSearan14 ай бұрын
I worked at a couple of AM radio and the signal would feed through the magnetic phonograph cartridges. I remember when i converted from ceramic cartridges to magnetic cartridges that you could here the 5kw signal from the AM station through the stereo while on 5KW but when they cut the power to 500 watts at nite you could not hear it
@devilsoffspring55193 ай бұрын
Those magnetic cartridges have a preamp with a really high gain and a high input impedance. The wires from the cartridge to the preamp will pick up a LOT of stuff from the radio if they aren't shielded!
@SSearan13 ай бұрын
I know. I always used shielded cables. And I still do. But all the radio stations used a realistic preamp from radio shack. The engineer had a Macintosh preamp, and it still picked up the radio signal in the production studio. I never owned an expensive preamp. But I had a Fisher Receiver from the early 70s that had a good preamp in it, and it did not pick up the radio signals like the realistic did.
@devilsoffspring55193 ай бұрын
@@SSearan1 I built mine using a pair of 741 op amps that were older than me :) Haven't listened to any vinyl for many years, but that homebrew preamp worked great
@SSearan13 ай бұрын
@@devilsoffspring5519 Didn't have access or could afford the equipment.
@devilsoffspring55193 ай бұрын
@@SSearan1 Building an RIAA EQ preamp you mean? I built mine in my early teens for very little money. Lack of money is why I built it! :) I consider vinyl to be an obsolete relic that some people seem to have a fascination with. I wish I still had that preamp though!
@cliffcorbitt94944 ай бұрын
I used to take my little model race cars and take the motors and connect them to my Kenwood receiver and listen to music through the motors
@karlbarnett58634 ай бұрын
I've never heard of that. That's fascinating and very clever.
@KC5CQW4 ай бұрын
I miss those little open frame motors!
@rod14994 ай бұрын
Tyco , AFX and Gplus days were lit!
@JeorgeJetsin4 ай бұрын
Thats awesome!
@carsonc12724 ай бұрын
I lived by a few towers while growing up. We could hear the radio whenever we picked up the phone. Years later the speakers of fire alarms on new apartment buildings had the same issue.
@chickenderbycocktalkpodcas87464 ай бұрын
Chief Engineer here, I once had a call that someone was climbing and at the top my 5000W TPO AM tower. I fully expected to see a body on the ground but when I got there no one was there. They had to have jumped up to grab the tower, because had he just grabbed it while standing on the ground he’d have some seriously well done hands 😂
@bigtexuntex78254 ай бұрын
Grounded a live broadcasting tower with the heal of my hands. I could FEEL the modulation as 35kw arched into my palms. left some dark marks for an inch or so under the skin, and the smell of cauterized flesh. Barely hurt, heart didn't stop. I was trying to bang the balls together by slapping them together with my palms. It looked like I could do it, but it said "NO!" But to the people that think this would burn your arms off, it won't. The rf energy used skin effect, and by the time it got to my heart the current was flowing on the surface of my body, not so much inside. I do not recommend. But yeah, you can power simple personal electronics with very simple power supplies if you live near these towers. People with metal dental work can sometimes hear the broadcast.
@hstone08084 ай бұрын
@@bigtexuntex7825 so, it's real?! The thing about hearing the broadcast through an old metal filling??
@terrywallace21714 ай бұрын
Is you're name Scotty ?
@MeEncantaKiley4 ай бұрын
@@hstone0808Yes I’ve heard the sound of screams and kidnapped victims fading into other stations
@hstone08084 ай бұрын
@MeEncantaKiley how though, wouldn't it have to have been broadcasted for you to have picked up a radio frequence? I mean, shit .... that's nuttier than a squirrel turd and I'm not sure I'd be able to function properly if that's the type of shit I picked up from a filling in my tooth!
@77gravity2 ай бұрын
Back in my BASE jumping days, we had to be very careful when getting onto radio masts. The trick was to jump onto the tower, without bridging the gap to ground. RF energy on a functioning tower would heat up the metal in your rig, so we preferred towers that were not transmitting. In those days (1980s) a lot of stations shut down overnight, so they could be used then.
@Militia.4 ай бұрын
That sir, would be because of electrical “frequency” that’s the rate at which the electricity changes directions/polarity. Causing a square or sine wave. The wave itself depending on size and length will produce audible sound. In this case, we can hear the sound in the form of live current exchange through arcing! 🤓❤️
@gardenlifelove98154 ай бұрын
Tesla spoke of transmitting power across the world this way
@Wunwaywunzero4 ай бұрын
Yeah and he was wrong
@jamesbizs4 ай бұрын
And even if was right, the fools that keep talking about free electricity, lol need to stop.
@Mastermindyoung144 ай бұрын
Not exactly this way, no
@aultsan4 ай бұрын
uhhh it does work... we use it everyday ya toolbag.
@darrellmcever3404 ай бұрын
Power drops as the square of the distance.
@airgliderz4 ай бұрын
Love how you can hear the broadcasters voice through the arc from the piwer of the briadcast signal.
@h.e.floydiii72594 ай бұрын
HOLY SHITTTTTT. I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED IT TO BE THAT MUCH!
@The_DuMont_Network4 ай бұрын
Pfftt... The max power in the USA is 50 KW on the AM bands. WLW Cincinnati had a 500 KW AM transmitter for a number of years. There are several KZbin tours. Well worth warching.
@shukfahid17 күн бұрын
I could hear the game being played through that arc 😮
@mrnmrn13 ай бұрын
Here in Hungary we have a 2000kW AM transmitter (540kHz, Solt, Radio Kossuth) . It covers the entire country, plus a good portion of Europe, but during night, it can be picked up even in Canada and the US. You can do similar sparky tricks in a several mile radius around the tower with any metal object and something grounded, like a fence. Also a fluorescent tube lights up if you stick one end of it in the ground.
@videos_of_Alexander5 ай бұрын
As I understand it, it is better not to touch it with your bare hands. Otherwise, it will be the last radio program you will hear.
@TaylorIRL4 ай бұрын
Imagine touching it and the last thing you hear while you get electrocuted to a crisp is a very loud voice saying “IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE IS SUFFERING FROM MESOTHELIOMA…”
@davidg42884 ай бұрын
You will not get a shock, the frequency is too high to affect the human nervous system directly. You WILL get a burn, a very deep and nasty burn. Never touch a radio tower!
@phillyphakename12554 ай бұрын
@@TaylorIRLhow did I get this electrocution? What are my treatment options? How will this affect my loved ones?
@DoyleHargraves4 ай бұрын
That's what she said
@MisterPerson-fk1tx4 ай бұрын
$5 if you pee on it.
@keithphelps10164 ай бұрын
Another demonstration of Tesla's ideas. Thank you sir. Wonderful post
@5W5Y54 ай бұрын
While he was welding that screw for demonstrations, pbs lost it's signal 😂
@Mrshutter4 ай бұрын
I mean, maybe in one direction a bit
@JPGtampa3 ай бұрын
Better that NPR loses it
@TheCynysterMind4 ай бұрын
Great demonstration!!! I work at an AM as well... People tend not to believe the truth behind the RADIOACTIVE warning signs.
@bjsteg793 ай бұрын
Grew up near the 700 WLW tower in Cincinnati. It was at one time the strongest AM tower. People could pick up the broadcast in their metal cavity fillings, and random other metallic items. There's tons of signs posted around it to not touch or go near the tower, or anchoring wires.
@trustfriedman82414 ай бұрын
There is a legend that the TV signal was lost to the English midlands 'cos someone near the transmitter stuck a large antena in their back garden and used it to power their house.
@MisterPerson-fk1tx4 ай бұрын
I hear you get in quite a bit of trouble fooling around with that kind of stuff.
@jowofoto4 ай бұрын
That's fantastic.
@stubaker17374 ай бұрын
Dude you just stopped my BO
@timrxn54144 ай бұрын
Sounds like an urban legend but I so WANT it to be true
@bw12274 ай бұрын
you can light a neon light pulp just standing next to the antenna
@everettplummer97254 ай бұрын
Working on the dehumidifier at a Florida radio station, nitrogen was pumped through, until we fixed the dehumidifier. Dry air is less conductive, of high frequency, high power, radio transmissions.
@ausinasmith964 ай бұрын
I love the usage of "dry air" here instead of air with less moisture content hahaha
@FrankJohnson-d5v11 ай бұрын
Great demonstration
@TripleBlack3312 ай бұрын
Just by picking up the transmission! Fascinating!
@DroneSkinz3 ай бұрын
Definitely remind me of my Tesla coil. So cool to hear music come out of a copper wire. Damn near magical.
@Blu.86-te1pr5 ай бұрын
So Nikolai Tesla’s whole wireless power thing is real?
@glennverdeyen56855 ай бұрын
And probably not verry good for your health
@lukahierl98575 ай бұрын
@@glennverdeyen5685 anti 5G folks would go nuts
@WackyWadslow5 ай бұрын
You're stupid. @glennverdeyen5685
@kagin12355 ай бұрын
@@lukahierl9857but AM radio is 0G though
@HChandler20104 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking
@paulc37044 ай бұрын
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
@Allen-qs5gj4 ай бұрын
Nice speaker screw, it was trying to transmit through the arc...😂
@markstevens1729Ай бұрын
I guess that’s why growing up to music on AM radio back in the 60’s was so electrifying!
@bigadamhilbillyАй бұрын
I operated a 250’ crane in close proximity to an AM Christian radio repeater. Similar to this you could hear random preaching emanating from the arc! We’d have to wear linesman gloves when rigging anything to the block, or touching certain parts of the crane. It was a big natural gas power plant job, we had a full time RF safety guy dealing with all the interference the radio waves caused. It was all pretty fascinating!
@evan69634 ай бұрын
Some?! lol. Your getting enough power to weld with. 😂
@marshallmcdonald73094 ай бұрын
Inductance, reactance, capacitance. Did you know rusty bolts & joints on some fences, buildings & structures can receive & retransmit some radio signals. Electricity is a funky thing.
@fryfrom984 ай бұрын
Makes me neck shiver thinking of all that power in the air
@SortaSkilled4 ай бұрын
Not exactly how it works
@RGBReact4 ай бұрын
@@SortaSkilledhe showed exactly how it works. The antenna just melted a nail. From power in the air.
@jasonspink19814 ай бұрын
A lightning strike is 10 GIGAWATTS 😬🤣. The power from that radio tower is insignificant.
@johnflynn21094 ай бұрын
I feel it too
@johnflynn21094 ай бұрын
@jasonspink981 except its constant, not a one time event.
@jefferyshall4 ай бұрын
Wholly wireless energy transfer batman… That was awesome!
@dennistowerofpower58082 ай бұрын
Cool you can hear the modulation coming off the ark…. During ww2 my dad could hear the modulation on a shovel that hung from the main mast of the ship when they were close to Japan… at night… I was a kid and he had some Awesome stories…. Thanks for sharing…..🫵✌️
@bobadingo4 ай бұрын
Anybody with fluorescent lighting within 2 mi radius probably doesn't need electricity to have lighting!
@JamesPensyl-n2l4 ай бұрын
Expand on that please
@mrnmrn13 ай бұрын
@@JamesPensyl-n2l The gas charge in fluorescent tubes can be excited with radio waves (it will glow). To do that, you need to ground one end of the tube, and attach the other end to an antenna. In my country, we have a 2000kW transmitter, in a several mile radius around the tower if you stick one end of a fluorscent tube into the ground, it will light up on its own.
@barnybrewman15714 ай бұрын
Not sure about that. From the angle of the shadow, it could be PM.
@tomrager33364 ай бұрын
Lol 😆
@demonknight79654 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@veeman71164 ай бұрын
😂
@shanestevens62084 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂
@CompoundedTroubles3 ай бұрын
fantastic😅
@jeffwobrak52054 ай бұрын
I've seen where a kid in Russia touched a large leafed plant to a radio tower, and you could actually hear music/ voices while the plant is being fried. I think it was on the Discovery Channel show What on Earth. Give it a try for your next video.
@enigma80883 ай бұрын
Holy crap! This stuff is flowing throughout the area.
@michiganmudduckradio78493 ай бұрын
Must be a 30k-50kw station next to it. Tower hes showing the arc is a backup tower, am radio uses entire tower as antenna. It being a backup means its the same length as the primary, so its pickingn up the frequency as its on the same harmonic. Neat.
@phillipatkinson39734 ай бұрын
I could hear the transmission of the other tower through the arc thats badass I would love to learn this
@boeing777x-x5 ай бұрын
Listening to am radio: what am I hearing
@purplebooger64104 ай бұрын
The real question here is - Who did Nikola Tesla hear when he claimed he could pick up voices with his wireless energy tower?! 😮
@Gilberto904 ай бұрын
Guglielmo Marconi
@richardbarber43803 ай бұрын
@@Gilberto90funny
@ColeMay3 ай бұрын
Wow. I had no idea that was possible lol. I love when i find these gems on KZbin whwn i wasnt even looking up anything about radio towers. Thank you.
@nolimitstech85953 ай бұрын
Whoa!! You can actually partially hear the radio transmission through the electrical arc, that's amazing!
@jamestilley93654 ай бұрын
I started working in wireless communication 2 years ago, I mostly deal with vhf and some uhf and going to start learning microwave soon, i never real thought about the fact that the antenna will catch the frequency its tuned to regardless of it having a receiver hooked up, and for the people tripping about hearing the audio, electricity vibrates a speaker cone amplifies the clarity of that vibration, a microphone takes the vibration from your voice and then matches the vibration using electrical frequency.
@SMAAirAssault4 ай бұрын
Tony Stark built this in a cave, with scraps!
@hulldragon4 ай бұрын
A *_box_* of scraps, iirc. 🤔
@generalingwer43415 ай бұрын
Yup😀 all u got to do is park your house next to a tower,rectify it and then turn the dc back into ac mains power.closest to free energy youll get.😃
@dispatch4445 ай бұрын
And a crap load of earplugs if you want to keep your sanity, or get any sleep.
@samohraje24335 ай бұрын
@@dispatch444 capacitors.
@phillyphakename12554 ай бұрын
I saw a hackaday of someone who did that with the 60Hz hundreds of kV lines running behind his house. IIRC he was able to pull about a watt from it. Might charge an MP3 player or a AA battery charger, but that's about it. But high frequency like AM radio? You might be able to extract energy easier.
@jray41314 ай бұрын
Your friend could have pulled a lot more power with more coils but it’s highly illegal. Power companies can find energy leaks just like a plumber can find water leaks, though it takes a bit more effort.
@mowgli20714 ай бұрын
@@jray4131 If it's not connected to the grid they can't do anything. And if it's somehow not visible then they can't tell where it is anyway.
@PeterEmery3 ай бұрын
I used to work in telecommunications and one of the circuit testers had an earpiece that plugged into the receiver probe. That tester’s body was an aluminium shell. You could hold the receiver raised at arm’s length and receive a particular AM radio station.
@talesofmeretheology50552 ай бұрын
I'm a radio friend and I still found this fascinating!
@3484powerdew4 ай бұрын
I used to live next to a guy that had a 50' antenna to talk on a cb radio or could have been a ham radio idk i was a kid. But i could hear him talking from my tv speaker when the tv was off. Like 30 years ago. Airport officials gave him a visit. Lived in the flight path to the nearby runway
@fiscalcpiano4 ай бұрын
Neat story! Damn
@derekkeyser42354 ай бұрын
Was you in wv by chance?
@SmokinTime4204 ай бұрын
green Bay?
@Fargoleafy4 ай бұрын
No shot it was CB. Ham. HF probably
@3484powerdew4 ай бұрын
Florida
@codycall65134 ай бұрын
Crazy you can hear what's being transmitted.
@jessesutton15884 ай бұрын
Read “the invisible rainbow” by Arthur Firstenburg. It will change everything. The way you look at the world will never be the same. And the guy that commented “Tesla had it right” is correct
@MikeMcDaniels-w1u2 ай бұрын
Wardenclyffe Tower with Arc Rectification Detector. Very Good! Thank You.
@rrw653 ай бұрын
40 years ago, I was a DJ at a small AM station, and worked 3-11pm. Due to FCC regulations, I had to cut the power on the transmitter, at night. The transmitter was originated in the 1940's, and there was a radioactive hazard label on the transmitter. I always wondered if it would blow up, one night, or I'd be evaporated! lol
@petnzme4 ай бұрын
Tesla knew all about it...
@Funetic4 ай бұрын
The waves emitting from the distant antenna (power source, transmitter) aren't sound waves; that term isn't relevant until he bridges the proximal antenna's (receiver) rod to the adjacent rod, thereby shorting the acquired energy from within the proximal antenna to the adjacent grounding apparatus and thus as an incidental function of that process disrupts the local air currents due to the process of energy transference from electromagnetic high-powered radio waves, obeying the path of least resistance rule, flowing across his metal shunt at frequencies that impart proportional wave energy upon the air, thus generating the sound waves, albeit with less-than-optimal efficiency. The emitted waves from the distant antenna are radio waves, which are a type of electromagnetic radiation, that itself encompasses energy forms including visible light, UV light, gamma rays, x-rays, infrared light, radio waves, electricity, etc. They all travel at [approximately] the speed of light (speed is somewhat tempered by a nonvacuum medium). The sounds we here are disruptions in the pressurized air which have been translated by our brain and associated auditory systems to sound.
@Yermomdoesitbetter4 ай бұрын
Something tells me you have been punched in the face a few times...
@dumbidiot38694 ай бұрын
What an awkward way to say this. Learn to be succinct.
@Dojahs4 ай бұрын
I do concur!
@ferrumignis4 ай бұрын
I do like a bit of word salad for a light lunch.
@alloverflorida58864 ай бұрын
Simply amazing isn't it
@randallsmerna3844 ай бұрын
Holy Shit! EMFs are nothing to mess around with. Amazing and terrifying!
@everlastinglife59783 ай бұрын
All that energy is flowing through your body too
@aztecworrior793 ай бұрын
You just welded your first personal broadcast live!..😄
@popofilipo711411 ай бұрын
You are a genius guy
@svantedingdongdingdong10064 ай бұрын
Yes . When we were fishing as kids we used to listen to radio from the dead fish . It worked for 20-30 min for each fish.
@revbeet3 ай бұрын
What??
@planetmoving91802 ай бұрын
Please explain
@wire543214 ай бұрын
This makes me want to play ACDC big balls
@tuvoca8254 ай бұрын
That means the song has a point to it...
@joeblundell2993 ай бұрын
Almost like the universe is just awash in a sea of energy flowing and expanding, emitting, receiving, and rectification through pressure and time. I have hella awesome memories of growing up in the farm lands of Kansas listening to AM baseball games on hot summer nights, life is cool.
@JeffGeerlingАй бұрын
Mmmm... always love AM towers!
@redriver65414 ай бұрын
That much is induced into that antenna? That's nuts.
@NickSonnega4 ай бұрын
I SEE! SO WE'RE LOOKING AT POWERBALLS!
@tonymetro47074 ай бұрын
😂
@dodgedak034 ай бұрын
Whoa, that arc became a speaker
@williamhoward71214 ай бұрын
I'm not sure anyone else noticed that. I heard it as well someone was clearly talking in the arc!
@Railroader19894 ай бұрын
I had my cb radio in my old truck hooked to a “kicker” or amplifier with a 10ft whip antenna that was pushing so many watts that I could light up a tube bulb… when I keyed up close to the house, I would disrupt the tv and talk through the alarm clock inside the house!! 😂🤣
@FreedomToRoam863 ай бұрын
Kick ass video showing electrical principles!
@TheAmericanDreamChaser4 ай бұрын
That's crazy you can actually hear the transmission when you're welding
@jasparsmith339711 ай бұрын
Nice one my radios just blown up
@ivandieskim4 ай бұрын
Ah yes. Amplitude modulation. An antenna is an antenna
@TheTopMostDog3 ай бұрын
I didn't catch the voices until my second watch through. Wondered why you said who needs a radio. That's fucking wicked!
@tomservo53472 ай бұрын
Makes one wonder how exactly all these energy frequencies are affecting our health-mentally and physically as we're bombarded non-stop.