This radio tower fries frogs!

[@redactedrider7606]

Imagine you touch it and the last thing you hear is a mattress commercial beamed straight into your head.

[@GenericWhiteMale123]

Damn, that was good.

[@B81Mack]

Or My Pillow, Mike Lindell...

[@othyvitswamba1111]

😂😂😂😂

[@michaelrobinson3104]

​@@B81Mackor fucking rush limbaugh

[@Badr-il3pg]

Instantly get Cyberpsychosis

[@neosenshi]

The worst smell I have ever experienced: Dealing with a squirrel that shorted the 1kW tower I worked on - it had stepped across the lightning arrester!

[@davidkonig4236]

You mean KV

[@lbochtler]

@@davidkonig4236 could be either. Radio is measured in KW not KV though. A 1KW tower is a bit on the small side, but still nothing to sneeze at, more then enough power to fry a squirrel

[@kaliban4758]

😅😅😅😅

[@bjornnilsson8496]

As a kid i worked summers as a chimney sweeper, i remember standing by the chimney on the roof whilst my boss made a fire downstairs, preparing to look for leaks/cracks. Long story short, in the chimney was a birds nest, including dead, decaying bird + eggs. Eventually the nest caught fire which caused a sudden updraft, carrying with it debris and all, hitting me square in the face. That odor stayed in my nostrils for days.

[@stickyfox]

Rush Limbaugh was worse than that smell.

[@ewathoughts8476]

50 KW is small when you compare it to the old VOA 1000 KW transmitters used during the Cold War. In Okinawa the nearby villagers got free electric lights. All they had to do was take naked florescent tubes near the antenna fence and then back to their homes. The tubes would stay lit, and they placed the tubes in the closet when they wanted lights out. The transmitter ran 23 hours each day, so they had to relight the tubes each day.

[@LSD97123]

That is crazy

[@pepeshadilay]

They could even hear the radio broadcast in their heads ! No 📻 radio necessary

[@SuperPhexx]

​@@parallax3dwell... it's not as far fetched as one might think.. if it is FM it's impossible, but AM signals have been known to cause teeth / dentures made from metals to make sound! A passive AM receiver can be made with very very few parts.

[@tsm688]

@@SuperPhexx Our microwave oven used to talk to itself... while unplugged. We figured out it was a HAM guy down the road

[@coreybabcock2023]

Liar

[@spooge33]

Drove up to the gate of a remote tower where we were renting space. As I was unlocking the gate, I could hear Spanish music very clearly. It was coming out of the 4 inch fence post that wasn't capped.

[@snjert8406]

Whoa.

[@MehmetŞentürk-q3i]

Manyetik alan cisimler üzerinde mekanik etki mi yapıyordu yani?

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

dunn that been thar

[@almightyyt2101]

Have you ever seen the toothbrush that plays music silently in yr head? Works on frequency but its much the same concept that makes the music able to be 'heard' this doesnt take an electromagnetic field but if you have metal connecting the teeth to the eardrum that allows it to be vibrated at a frewuency the ear can pick up and the brain interpret. One of the best threads in awhile on comments section.

[@joefuentes2977]

Wow how did it manage to function as a receiver circuit?

[@ThunderMuffinMan]

Today learned you can use frogs as a 10kW fuse

[@JeffGeerling]

Haha didn't think of it that way, but yes. Now I kinda wonder what rating a bullfrog would have...

[@ThunderMuffinMan]

@@JeffGeerling 😆

[@tacticalnuke420]

​@@JeffGeerlingyoo bro hii

[@deus_ex_machina_]

Perfect use case for invasive cane toads down under.

[@Jan-hx9rw]

Quick blow or slow blow?

[@robertmcdonaldoh]

I wouldn't go near that thing wearing a pacemaker

[@Can80]

Even cell phone signals can mess with pacemakers, ICD's really are fragile www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/cell-phones/potential-cell-phone-interference-pacemakers-and-other-medical-devices#:~:text=Potential%20Cell%20Phone%20Interference%20with%20Pacemakers%20and%20Other%20Medical%20Devices,-Share&text=Radio%20frequency%20energy%20(RF)%20from,called%20electromagnetic%20interference%20(EMI).

[@douglassmalls6934]

AOE insta death attack to the elderly

[@olliknecks]

@@douglassmalls6934 100% crit chance against players with pacemaker equipped

[@ontheupside9521]

@@douglassmalls6934LMAOO

[@loona5530]

I wouldn't go near that thing with braces, fillings, or any metal in my body

[@grizzlycountry1030]

*KMOX-AM (1120 kHz) is a 50,000-watt clear-channel AM radio station with studios located in downtown St. Louis, MO, USA. But their broadcast tower is located about 10 miles northeast, in Pontoon Beach, IL.*

[@firstnamelastname6216]

Yep!!! I'm in St. Charles Co. which is about 25 miles away from STL, and KMOX has been around forever. Had no idea the signal was so strong though lol 😂 👍✌️

[@aydenlokey3641]

me: trying to sleep The pots and pans in my cupboards: Vibin

[@jeorgedavid3239]

😂

[@5530fsc]

Back in the 80’s, I worked in a building housing two small AM radio transmiter, one had 2 KW and the other 16KW. The 16KW still had a pretty high voltage for the final stage, about 5.5 kV. One night, while everything was working fine, the large transmitter protection decided to shut it down. We tried to restart but it never connected the final stage. After a few minutes of troubleshooting, we found a carbonized mouse on a high voltage capacitor, it decided to jump from the chassis which was grounded to the positive terminal of the capacitor and met his maker. Good times.

[@Plyst3]

Seen a squirrel become a piece of charcoal. He ran up the pole and shorted the transformer. The explosion was fairly spectacular. Next thing you notice is a black lump next to the pole, oddly squirrel shaped

[@unpaidintern6652]

Not for the mouse. But I imagine flash vaporisation to be pretty painless

[@Kepler_2258]

@@unpaidintern6652my neighbor threw out an oven, so I tore it apart to scrap it (it was one of the IR Fancy Ones) and I found a Charred Mouse inside a nest made of fiberglass insulation under one of the top IR Burners lmao

[@bobbundus4593]

we went down at KAKC a rattler liked the warm tx anode supply & fried across a cap

[@andreaquadrati]

IT TURNS THE FREAKING FROGS GA-No wait wrong one, this turns em in jerky.

[@MisterMick113]

They may not be gay, but they are flaming

[@odinfromcentr2]

​@@MisterMick113[ba dum tss]

[@ElectricityTaster]

Imagine the moment the frog got fried, Alex Jones was ranting about gay frogs and you could hear him via the frog being fried on the transmitter.

[@DeerJerky]

in WHAT?

[@achimaufachse5925]

I heared a story about a guy who coiled kilometers of wire around his house to harvest the energy from a nearby radio station in east germany. 😂

[@HyenaEmpyema]

I've heard you can do that if you live under a transmission line as well. Would make an interesting legal case, but if you only "sipped' power, they'd probably never figure it out.

[@whtwolf100]

​@@HyenaEmpyemanah, there was a fella who did that, got sued and won. Now they got a rule you cant build close to the transmission lines

[@zpa89]

​@@HyenaEmpyemathey could never know because it doesn't draw power. They dump that all in the air no matter what. If people receive it they hear music, otherwise it just heats the air slightly over a huge area. If somebody wanted to use that power for something else it wouldn't impact anything

[@ericsaul9306]

​@@zpa89well it depends, if you were to place a coil under the line the magnetic lines that surround those cables would twist and induce a current in the coil while generating some extra resistance on the wire, basically it would create a hugely inefficient wireless charging station and depending on the size of your coil you could easily draw enough current to light several houses, tho that's probably how the dude with a house under a power line won the lawsuit, the magnetic lines were crossing into his property and at no point he was doing anything illegal inside his property, but this would be very noticeable on the power lines because if 20% of the induced current becomes actual electricity that would be a lot, the rest becomes heat that wears out the cables a lot faster than what they normally would

[@zpa89]

@@ericsaul9306 this discussion I about AM radio towers. There are no wires

[@Heroshi-Hazuki]

People be complaining about 5G towers.

[@Eli-curiotech]

Saved me the writing 😂

[@chives3034]

😂😂😂😂so true

[@thomasjones1438]

Imagine how much worse 5g is than this

[@actionnew]

Higher frequency

[@SAMURAINUTS]

​@@actionnewmakes no difference

[@Eleanor_Rigby1966]

In Poland we had a 650 meter radio tower which had 2 transmitters each 1000 KW. It was located in Konstantynów and if the weather was nice polish radio 1 could be recieved even as far as Egypt.

[@josepeixoto3384]

was it 100 Kw?

[@europawellennachbar3696]

Here in Germany, we had just fivehundred meters from my house a station with 1200 kW (Yes 1.2 MW) transmitting the Europawelle Saar. And just an hour with the car away was the station of Radio Luxembourg, also known as Radio 208, which was also transmitting with 1.2 MW. And if you are looking for the longwave, 20 Minutes by car and you were able to visit the Station of Europe 1, transmitting with 2,000 kW (2 MW) on 183 kHz.

[@ke6ziu]

Radio, mein Radio Ich lass mich in den Äther saugen Meine Ohren werden Augen Radio, mein Radio (mein Radio) So höre ich, was ich nicht seh Stille heimlich fernes Weh

[@christiannagel2133]

Da gab es wohl auch so einige kuriose Phänomene mit denen die direkten Anwohner leben mussten. Die hohe Schrittspannung in Heusweiler hat wohl auch sad laufen über das Gelände besonders gemacht 😂

[@timflory4767]

Wonderful Radio Luxembourg da da da da da

[@timflory4767]

German daytime English nightime

[@classydays43]

AM radio was awesome. You could slowly microadjust the dial and find all kinds of stations from all over the place.

[@RCAvhstape]

"Was"? Still can.

[@classydays43]

@@RCAvhstape Not in Australia. It's all a faint, haunting fuzz now. My favourites were the frequencies that could pick up two stations at once, or they were so close on the band that they'd blend at a certain distance.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@classydays43 Sad. I hope it never dies in the US. The AM stations there are still advertising heavily so I guess the market is viable.

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@classydays43 You can at night with a decent loop antenna. I have an SDR dongle with a MLA-30+ antenna and I once heard North Korea's radio while in Africa. About an hour after sunset or sunrise are great times to AM DX. 100% you can do this from australia. But you probably won't have a station you can tune in whenever you want.

[@ronparrish6666]

Yea it's kinda neat up here in Toronto after about midnight you can go on the AM Dial and pickup stations from as far as Kentucky an CHICAGO and on the CB Chanel's after midnight the skip on the airways sometimes comes up from Florida if the conditions are just right

[@LinkTheFusky]

People nearby with metal bed springs can hear the radio station in their mattress if it’s quiet enough

[@johnbryan9134]

Yes you are right, I lived in Monterey Mexico at night I could hear in my bed the XEG AM 1050.. 150.000Watts

[@MehmetŞentürk-q3i]

Evet şimdide opera yayınına geçiyoruz😂 gece boyunca yatakta resital çaldığını düşünsenize . En mantıklısı yatagın yayına kalın bir kablo bağlayıp toprağa vermek olur, müzik çalmaz ama bu seferde radyasyon kaşıntısından uyuyamazsınız.

[@alm9951]

​@@MehmetŞentürk-q3i is that the same as jock itch?

[@AngryAlfonse]

This always annoyed me as a kid because poorly shielded audio electronics (cheap headphones with large coils, cheap guitar amps) would pick up the radio station if it was quiet.

[@Smokesu]

Some ppl will swear they've heard ghosts because of things like this. Maybe it's actually turned ppl insane

[@440hzguitar]

The fence arcing is due to the modulation of the electromagnetic waves that cause the fence to build up electric charge similar to an alternator... Bad grounding means that the fence is not dissipating the built-up charge. In radio we run into animals that crawl themselves into equipment all of the time. I've seen a mouse make a site much less powerful go off air. Wildlife love the transmitter buildings and try to live in them...everywhere.

[@Radionut]

Are used to listen to it over in Germany when I was a radio operator over there in the US Army in their mid-1970s

[@ThunderChunky101]

I used to live next to a little unknown village in England where they had experimental Marconi radio equipment that would reach Australia. It was used to contact submarines and was a nuclear attack target throughout the cold war. The towers were gigantic. They've all disappeared now. There's another massive radio tower nearby that can be seen from hundreds of miles away.

[@deafmusician2]

It seems that there may be a day when they wish they still had all these old systems..

[@pamelah6431]

Putting the 'kill' in kilowatt.

[@zeekaa12]

My friend works at a local water supply station. They have a pigeon that managed to catch itself between 10 kW wires. It’s been there for 5 years, and no one dares to take it out.

[@snjert8406]

Probably not much left now hahaha

[@Jan-hx9rw]

@@snjert8406 Like a Quiznos sub... uh-oh, toasty!

[@pisnotmynamesisnotmygame3757]

Check out the history of WLW 700 am in Cincinnati. Before the FCC it was way way over 50,000 watts.

[@kd4eaijohn]

Five hundred thousand watts, and that transmitter is still on their premises. It is Huge!

[@loganrench5680]

It still transmits 24 hours a day at 50,000 watts in the 1930s it transmitted at 500,000 watts

[@CaptOrbit]

I came here looking just for this comment! And the one that mentions it still has the capability (although most of that transmitter disassembled and stored on site) to broadcast at 500,000.

[@5roundsrapid263]

The FCC existed then, they allowed it on an experimental license.

[@BobSmith-kd6lq]

WKRP in Cincinnati

[@andrewtheanimenerd]

That was the most flawless loop I have seen, good job sir, commendable!

[@kuri369kuri]

There used to be a radio station in Ft. Wayne Indiana called WOWO that pumped 50K watts. Was heard at quite a distance from the source.

[@rexracer7192]

My neighbor is a radio expert he was transmitting a signal that cut off local stations and caused a few cop cars to catch fire. This was years and years ago...

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Sounds like he was using The Force.

[@theguy9208]

that might be what he said he did... what actually happened was nothing because that shit is physically impossible. for 1, youd have to over power any signal which means tens of thousands of watts - extremely difficult and impossible not to immediately get caught, and probably put in prison. 2, if you were putting out such power as to light recievers on fire, your own equipment would fucking explode.

[@kennethflorek8532]

I don't mean to downplay how cool managing 50 thousand watts is, but maybe it's worth mentioning there are hundreds of AM stations at this wattage around the US. I think the wattage was capped (by the Federal government) back in the thirties with the idea of preventing monopolization by watt escalation. The highest watt AM station in America is said to be 450,000 watts. That's because the Caribbean island of Bonaire (belonging to The Netherlands) is classified as in North America. I could never hear this station because there are much closer 50,000 watt stations, like within 10 miles, on the same frequency.

[@holliday72889]

The video isn’t a d k measuring contest, it’s simply a SHORT video explaining the power of a tower they have access to. If you have access to one more powerful, please do share.

[@kennethflorek8532]

@@holliday72889I am commenting to others what they may not know, especially those outside the US who have commented that 50 kilowatts AM is not huge for Europe. If and when you know anything, why don't you put something of interest in your comment, Mr. big d k. Maybe I'm supposed to be intimidated?

[@brigham2150]

I came here to say this. Thank you

[@OntarioBearHunter]

​@holliday72889 no..but the video made it seem like 10kw is a big deal.. it really isn't when considering microwave and FM transmitters.

[@agentmueller]

@@kennethflorek8532Yeah, he really showed you huh. I don’t understand people like that. He must have been a really great hall monitor and looks back on busting lower class mates fondly

[@codemiesterbeats]

Remind me of the old raccoon transformer incident I had... Homeboy got barbecued and he just stayed there until he wasn't there anymore 😂

[@voiceofjeff]

That's a class act right there!

[@GeerlingEngineering]

It's a beautiful tower site, well maintained since the 1930s. Even a paved road out to the main tower!

[@Warp2090]

@@GeerlingEngineeringwhat frequency is this station on

[@phildev74]

​@@Warp2090 1120AM

[@Timi7007]

​@@Warp20901120 from the looks of it

[@ThecrosseyedTexan]

Here in Dallas-Fort Worth we have our own AM blowtorch 50,000 w station. The great WBAP 820!

[@themrproamateur]

Grew up with this on my dad’s truck radio, and I live in St. Louis so the signal was crisp, for AM that is

[@metalsurgeon560]

Another long range one was 1190 wowo. Diring ww2 fort wayne indiana was on a list of top ten places to bomb because of WOWO and our defense industry centered around Magnavox. Grandfather was stationed in france, and said he listened every night to home!

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

XD Live in South Bend and I'm happy it was you and not us.

[@metalsurgeon560]

@@jacobrzeszewski6527 they wouldn't have stopped there. At the time the whole northern half of Indiana and lower 2/3 of Michigan were making most of the tanks and trucks. We were hammered any way you slice it.

[@MrTomdemma]

Art bell had 4, look him up, if you know you know, coast to coast from Pahrump Nevada! Many roswells😊

[@AMERICA_CARR]

That’s a lot of power. As a HAM radio operator I can only legally do 1,500 watts on most bands

[@Hathorr1067]

1,500 on 2cm. \(o.0)/

[@newbyclive]

Legally huh? So what's the highest you've actually done?

[@AMERICA_CARR]

@@newbyclive 80 watts. I don’t have that kind of money to go 1.5 Kilowatts and above

[@roland985]

Most hams use as little power as possible. I only use 50 @@newbyclive

[@ElectricityTaster]

Us PORK operators can do 3000 watts.

[@aschmitt89]

I grew up in a little town called Bunker Hill, Il. St. Louis was our back doorstep. This was such a cool video to watch for me! KMOX has always just been, but now I really appreciate how powerful that station’s signal really is! And I’ve been a ham radio operator since 2010! Also I still live in the area, though a bit further from St. Louis…

[@KuKoMoto]

There was a Mexican radio station called Radio Cañón in Monterrey Mexico and I could hear it at night in Denver, they advertised 100,000 wats of power.

[@erichimes3062]

Cue Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio”

[@Leftoftheslash]

Sounds about right, probably some unregulated station interfering with frequencies across the US 😂

[@fredvanelk2992]

50 kW is nothing here in Europe. Like someone else mentioned, on 540 KHz we have Kossuth Radio from Hungary with 2.000.000 Watts and I pick it up near Frankfurt Germany like the station is in my backyard. That is 1200 km as the crow flies.

[@CrisisGuildWOW]

1200 km is nothing here in the US. This and other US stations have an ERP of over 2000 miles (3200 km) on a normal day. Hungary to Germany is like going from Illinois to New York here. Anything beyond 50kw is pretty much wasted power anyhow. It's all about propagation. You either have it or you don't, more power does not guarantee more coverage.

[@13_cmi]

If 50 can almost completely cover the United States which is nearly the size of europe then 2000000 is unnecessary. I’m not a radio guy but that seems excessive.

[@V0ID_beats]

There are reports hearing Kossuth Radio from Michigan, US

[@michaelt.9372]

Yeah 1200km isn’t very far. I run 100 watts and from Arizona, I’ve reached Japan and New Zealand regularly. To Japan it’s 8400km.

[@CrisisGuildWOW]

@@michaelt.9372 so have I but that's SSB mind you. Here we are talking commercial AM here. Little bit of a difference.

[@hydrobud89]

I grew up near the WGN Chicago AM 720 radio station I believe it's 50k watts as well.

[@randybehrmann5454]

WGN is AM 720. WBBM is AM 780.

[@AureliusR]

The world's greatest newspaper nerds!

[@joczo97]

Meanwhile in Hungary we have Kossuth on 540kHz broadcasting with 2MW(megawatts,2000kW 😂)

[@lbochtler]

impressive

[@Mwwwwwwwwe]

🫨Dont forget to wear "Faraday screen" / your tinfoil hat when going for a walk😅

[@joczo97]

@@Mwwwwwwwwe actually you can't get that close to the antenna,a very big area is closed down with fence around it.with "rf hazard" signs all around the fence :D A crystal radio set with no antenna ligts up an led 30kms from the transmitter 😂

[@rypdx]

Damn that’s a strong signal. I’ll try to see if I can pick it up on my radio up here in Montana

[@Puddingskin01]

Wanna see what that does to a frog.

[@peanuts2105]

London has the famous crystal Palace Tower. It had the power of over 1MW that serves all of London and much of the south east England

[@madmax2069]

Just got to love the frequency range AM/MW is in due to its propagation at night (in the states we just call it by its modulation mode (AM = amplitude modulation), many people outside the USA call it "Medium wave" for the band it's using), some nights are better than others due to atmospheric conditions, but at night it's always going to travel further at night, I almost always hear AM/MW stations from NY, Canada at night. And I can definitely pick up KMOX AM at night, it's usually pretty easy with the big boomers/clear channel stations that don't have to lower their power at night. FM broadcast can have a similar effect but due to the frequency FM broadcast uses it's better suited for the day time, and if the atmospheric conditions are right even FM can go quite far (either Sporadic E skip, or Tropospheric ducting). A while ago I heard an FM station that's located in Texas and I was in Ohio at the time, at first I thought it was a new station then it faded out.

[@wargamer5782]

Read about polish radio station in konstantynów. It was highest human made structure, before burj khalifa. The signal could be received from US or even China.

[@KO-pk7df]

The gate and the fence are supposed to bonded to the earthing system. That is a safety issue by code.

[@JeffGeerling]

They both are-but the gate does need to swing open and closed. Unless you had an extra grounding strap that someone connected and disconnected every time the gate is used, there's about a 5mm gap between the gate's latch and the other part as it blows in the wind. If it is still long enough (floating without the latch touching on the non-hinge side), it can build up a tiny charge, but enough to discharge with a tiny visible arc. It's not enough to harm anyone, it's more like the static shock you get touching a handle on a winter day.

[@KO-pk7df]

I have been doing this for 30 years. It's all spelled out in the NEC and on construction prints on gates and fencing around certain sites. Grounding and Bonding and lighting & grounding. The gate uses a bonding strap that is flexible and there are grounding points on every fence section as per the specs. This is especially true for transmitter sits and more so for ones with spark-gap antenna for high powered transmitters. @@JeffGeerling

[@netpokey2883]

No wonder I got shocked from the slide in the playground

[@KezKaz]

That’s a completely separate thing

[@lukemorrish99]

700 WLW near Cincinnati used to transmit at 500kW and people near the tower could hear it in their bathtubs, toilets, and apparently even teeth fillings!

[@Neil-ru7kw]

Is this what transmitted Paul Harvey ? Drove truck for 30 yrs , '70-2000 , and heard him EVERYWHERE 👍

[@171apples171]

I (dumba**) once climbed a small tower. Saw really heavy cables dangling along the side of it, all the way up. Creeped me out wondering if any of them possible chaffed through the insulation. The fact that the gate arcs on itself... How do you even know whats safe to touch when working on that thing? Lol

[@dougkonopack4693]

WLS Chicago was too.

[@timothy____1989]

WLS 890, early 70s Rock&Roll with Uncle Lar, Lil Tommy and their animal stories! Good memories! 🙂👍🏼

[@billybobjoe444]

AM radio towers are are completely electrified if you arc it at the bottom you can here the radio signal through the arc! Also when climbing them you can't step onto the tower you have to jump all at once or you risk electrocution. Check out a video called 'AM radio tower power' on KZbin

[@wolfetteplays8894]

This is awesome! We need more radio subsidies to preserve important pieces of tradition like this. Long live analogue media!

[@kenbrown2808]

for years. at lunch time, we'd switch from the local FM station to the AM station to listen to Paul Harvey. that station went off the air this year.

[@chadrides914]

Ham radio operators are like; HOLD MY BEER

[@funkmanone]

*the frogs hated that.*

[@RWL2012]

I'm looking forward to the full video!

[@yourmarshmxllxws]

Should call it the frog frier

[@jeorgedavid3239]

😂

[@devindavidson3976]

Same with WLS in Chicago.

[@22druman]

It’s in downtown St.Louis if anyone wants to know.

[@FletcherPride]

I took apart some of the old 10KW, 6 tower Insane Broadcasting site on the other side of the woods from that site a couple of months ago. I've heard that the sites were only put that close together because the original engineer lied on the soil conductivity report, and I believe it! There was so much RF backfeeding into the tower shake that I couldn't hardly touch anything. BTW, have much trouble with the 3DX? I dispise those things.

[@radijoe]

When that site was proposed I notified our corporate team and they decided not to pursue. I only knew it was ridiculously close in both distance and frequency! My concern was it may not have been engineered very well or it may not get installed very well. But I knew they would have a heck of a time dealing with the RF from 1120! We had no reports to follow up on and no time to spend checking. They should be made RF invisible to KMOX as much as possible. But who will pay or take the time to get that done?

[@penzman5385]

Long live AM radio!

[@Kandralla]

I hate to tell you man. It seems like a lot of the religious, and Spanish language stations in Florida are jumping to FM so not looking good. We even had an HD AM station for a while that seems to have disappeared recently.

[@BrianLuxe]

"2 yahoos and a transmitter" I think they're trying to get the Boss Hogg crowd.

[@giga-ratsey1420]

This station itself is FM now from what I know

[@Kandralla]

@@giga-ratsey1420 probably. For me it was more of an oddity than anything. I was flipping through AM stations in my car just to see what was there, heard super clear audio and then wondered why it had gone back to FM. I wasn't aware that they were using it in the AM spectrum. A Day late and a dollar short I guess. It's kind of impressive that it works as well as it does.

[@Derelictdumpburnouts]

No

[@pandorasflame7742]

Radio antennas are super cool and far more deadly than people realize.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Deadly in what way, exactly?

[@Flesh_Wizard]

​@joewoodchuck3824 it could fall on you

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@Flesh_Wizard Properly installed antennas don't fall down. This one looks fine.

[@Mr.1.i]

Wanna know what the best kind of ariel is best for receiving....unroll a roll of chicken wire the length of the loft and get connected to that never fails it will work the dvb aswell

[@jednatakaosoba356]

This is not much compared to the Warsaw Radio Mast which had (well, it collapsed in 1991) 2000 KW transmitter and ca. 650 meter tall mast. It was so powerful that Poles in USA and Canada could tune in at night, 225kHz LW Polish Radio 1st program. Today we have 1 megawatt mast in Solec Kujawski which still broadcasts PR1 at 225kHz as well as some DAB shit, if not mistaken. And credit for the most powerful transmitter in Europe goes to Hungarian Solt, 2 MW of power, need to tune in on about 540kHz. Let AM mw and lw radio live forever

[@lyledal]

That poor little frog though!

[@favoritemustard3542]

It's ok because BILL CLINTON, of all people, listens to that station.

[@theorangeheadedfella]

​@@favoritemustard3542bro who cares

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@theorangeheadedfella exactly! I don't know why the narrator thought that was important lol

[@Caoimhinmanglitz12]

1 like = 1 prayer for the frog

[@int_pro]

Froggy was trying to stop Rush Limbutt.

[@Andre-PY4DR]

That's pure QRP right there 😅

[@jeremie5061]

Qrp x10000 xD

[@kd4eaijohn]

I thought that high power was QRO...

[@Andre-PY4DR]

@@kd4eaijohn it is QRO 😆

[@teknikal_domain]

Nah, typical operating power for FT8.

[@tylerm8143]

A good motto for this tower would be " frying brain cells for almost a century"

[@FaustoTheBoozehound]

By listening to Rush? He wasn't on for that long 😆

[@joewoodchuck3824]

There are lots of transmitting stations of that power level and higher.

[@ronan2969]

I tuned a portable radio to 1120AM here in Minnesota and pointed the antenna towards St. Louis. I picked up a noisy, unintelligible signal with the tone and timing of a person talking. I’m guessing it was either KMOX or KCRN which has another 50 kw tower in Colorado. Kinda cool either way. Maybe I’ll try taking my little radio somewhere with less interference tonight and see what I can pick up.

[@stevecaton1595]

It could probably send dangerous waves through your body.

[@artnascar9748]

On channel 6 on the CB radio they're running that much power.50k. ✌️🇺🇸

[@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor]

Superbowl lol

[@jimmcfall7769]

I saw one of those in person. He was using a telephone pole transformer in the build. I also saw a 10,000 watt mobile setup using used TV station finals. He had it in a 1980's Chevy Suburban with a piece of 2 inch copper tubing cut for channel 6 CB.

[@dieterhauer8619]

Yep & sadly some of the dirtiest-over modulated signals. Lately, I've been listening to 11 meters with my Yaesu FTDX-10 because it's fascinating (& maddening) to SEE on the bandscope how W I D E some of these horror stations are. Those are the ones that the FCC should chase after & shut down.

[@jmr]

Love to hear thoughts on the future of AM and the possibility of AM digital. I've heard "some" electric cars are too noisy for AM because "someone" cut corners. That's the rumor anyway. I haven't seen data on it.

[@GeerlingEngineering]

Check out our recent videos from earlier this year on AM radio's future - one on the auto manufacturers in particular, and another on reasons why AM may persist. KMOX used to broadcast in HD, but I believe they have switched that off for now? Very few AM listeners listened in HD, so the overhead hasn't been worth it for the very few stations who went that route. May change in the future, but it's a bit different than FM and streaming.

[@antimaga856]

​@GeerlingEngineering I remeber my dad's '90s Chevy truck having AM HD (KMOX), but haven't seen it since. My Denon AVR had AMHD, but my house had so much hash I had to listen to 102.5FM HD3 for Cardinals games (2013-16ish? Before they simulcast on 98.7FM)

[@jmr]

@@GeerlingEngineering Looks like I did see that video about 9 months ago. Maybe that's where I heard about a certain manufacturer not including AM.

[@SilverSpoon_]

AM digital... you mean shortwave digital - yes there's hams on the 28mhz that may be doing this, so why not, that's an idea, but first i'd have gone with FM over shortwave. >long range >decent sound, even stereo why not as long there's bandwidth. LW/MW are a waste of energy but okay.

[@jmr]

@@SilverSpoon_ Nope, I'm not talking about Hams. I'm talking about Digital commercial AM.

[@Furiends]

"Famous voices like...Rush Limbaugh" 💀

[@Tomyb15]

Rest in piss

[@draxoronxztgs1212]

I've managed to get American stations on my 1950's radio here in Sweden, also stations from asia and all europe that still transmit shortwave, mediumwave/AM and longwave signals. So yes, those transmitters are powerful.

[@soggybread5406]

one time i saw a squirrel that had touched the live part of the powerline and it was literally petrified exactly how it was when it died. just a rock solid piece of fried squirrel fur and all

[@JK-mo2ov]

That loop tho

[@TheNoodler.]

Frrr

[@tsm688]

During the great sask power outage, I think I heard this station... nothing up here was on the air :D

[@KRKM89]

We were picking up a station from Chicago the other day just outside of Saskatoon 🤣

[@tsm688]

@@KRKM89 It definitely can happen. It's just rare because of the way the way modern radio receivers work. Large areas of ghost reception means that a strong station of XX Mhz, here, may prevent us receiving a weak station of XXMhz+YYMhz from somewhere else. They actually plan around this and distribute radio frequencies to avoid each other locally. It's a little worrying to think about, that we have such dead zones in modern radio. There could be anything going on in some bands and we'd know nothing. Old receivers without digital tuning would be immune to this problem.

[@mackenziemcintyre1378]

I was picking it up badly on the south western corner of sask close to the border

[@scotcoon1186]

​@@KRKM89I listened to the loop fm out of Chicago, on the hillside above the barn back in Pennsylvania, til an oldies station went in locally on their frequency.

[@ThundercatDarklion]

@@KRKM89 Prob was WLS from one of the antennas on top of the sky scraper formally known as The Sears Tower. WLS referred to Sears as known as World's Largest Store. WLS can be herd for miles. Also during thunderstorms the antennas act like lightning rods and been videos of lighting hitting the antennas.

[@Turtlejohn8]

And Art Bell

[@drincogni]

Dont worry its perfectly safe.

[@justinvandal9696]

They should ground the fence and all parts near the tower to disipate the current

[@BestSpatula]

This tower gets partial blame for Rush Limbaugh.

[@scanman975]

Gets credit for showcasing a fine broadcaster.

[@apexalaska]

Did you know that sunspot activity and the alignment of planets in our solar system affect how far and clear a radio signal can be broadcast? Yes, astrology is real, for radiowaves.

[@wontoniotheninja4525]

I’ve only heard of sunspots affecting the ionosphere never planets

[@apexalaska]

@@wontoniotheninja4525exactly! Shortwave radio signals bounce back and forth off the ionosphere and the ground to travel insane distances. During WW2 shortwave radio was an important piece of wartime infrastructure and a lot was put into studying exactly what affects the signals so that outages could be planned for. They found out that whole sunspots certainly affected shortwave signals, it was the alignment of the planets that most significantly impacted the radio waves, and certain alignments always cause massive disruption.

[@danp7463]

The fact that it helped bring Rush Limbaughs show to am radio ads value to that transmitter tower. I miss Rush Limbaugh I remember when Rush was on TV.

[@dillonventola408]

I can't even get local stations in the mountains 😂 😂 😂 were definitely not getting a signal where I live 😂 😂

[@SatchPersaud-sm1gc]

That rooms gotta get hot... I worked for a station that had a transmitter in the empire state building, i remember after sandy we had to reajust to dish

[@ChristmasTvGames]

omg that's far range

[@FreeIreland]

Bill was so happy he could tune in on epstine island

[@jeorgedavid3239]

😂

[@MoharnabSaikia]

The perfect loop doesn't EXiiii......😮

[@ROOKTABULA]

I wonder what cancer rates are like near this thing? The fact that it carried Rush Limpball's poison means it definitely caused a lot of suffering.

[@photonik-luminescence]

I assume you used the term "cancer" to reffer to politics. Health-wise, nope.

[@TechGuy.]

Seeing this makes me realize i just have a disassembled radio tower in my backyard just laying around

[@nikiamz6501]

Nothing like the 500kw towers🙂

[@muffinpoots]

can we not put rush limbaugh and jack buck in the same league. one was the voice of the cardinals. the other is the voice of the klan.

[@ronwade2206]

100,000 watts of conservative horse shit!

[@MichaelSteeves]

My father worked at a 50 kW station. They had a similar issue and found a carbonized cat reaching across to a bird's nest.

[@bsdjail]

poor thing

[@joebudi5136]

Don't every radio tower put out 50k watts? Mexico had 1 million watt stations just across the border in the 50s-70's

[@ChefBoyarDEEZ]

Yea that's gotta be safe for humans.

[@50_foot_punch99]

It is.

[@DesertSessions93]

You can't tell me this hasn't had an effect on us

[@bailey2517]

What do you mean?

[@macstevins]

this technology has been running for over several decades at this point, we couldve shut down am and fm radio stations if theyre that bad as what we have "problems" with 5G

[@FaustoTheBoozehound]

We could tell you but you wouldn't believe us because some other big brain told you to believe them or "trust your instincts" or some other bs 😆

[@Finn-Germe81]

Art bells was bigger an boy did that pump out the ions 😅

[@humphreysmcgoo4370]

50,000 unstoppable watts!

[@sappy4happy448]

Meanwhile somewhere in the USA is a tweaker salivating about all of the copper tubing and how to get it without getting fried.

[@AttilaSVK]

if you come to Hungary for a visit, I will try to get you into the 2MW transmitter site of MR1 Kossuth Rádió :)

[@runningbear1982]

There used to be a 500K tower in Oklahoma. I don't remember the radio station, I just remembered they played country. They had an FM Tower too, but it was tiny.

[@perrylankford4269]

KVOO... It's still there and in use, just been regulated to nothing now.. It's in western Tulsa County..

[@fjs_forfjun1107]

Listened to the KMOX radio broadcast of one of the 1985 World Series games in Washington DC. It has a broad reach and especially at night when it reflects easily off of the ionosphere.

[@ohioplayer-bl9em]

700 WLWx used to push 500,000 watts. No it pushes just 50k watts. Most of the old equipment is still on location and you could take tours of it. Not sure if you still can or not. 500,000 watts… rumors are abound about fences vibrating, aluminum siding humming and other crazy things when the moisture was just right.

[@SJNFAB]

Although RF radiation is not thought to cause cancer by damaging the DNA in cells the way ionizing radiation does, there has been concern that in some circumstances, some forms of non-ionizing radiation might still have other effects on cells that might somehow lead to cancer.Oct 28, 2022