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?”
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.
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.
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. 😳
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!
@@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
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.
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.
@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!
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
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.
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 😊😊
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
@@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
@@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!
@@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! 😀
@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.
@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.
About a decade ago, I climbed a similar tower for fun late at night, listening to music to keep me calm. Almost to the top, my headphones actually picked up on radio transmissions. Freaked me out. Always wondered how my chances are now of having kids?
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
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
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
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…”
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!
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 😂
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.
@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!
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.
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
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 UA-cam tours. Well worth warching.
I remember as a kid building a crystal radio with an empty toilet paper cartridge and insulated copper wire. Connected it to my metal kitchen sink and picked up AM stations. It was pretty cool
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@user-jl3vt6vc4v 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.
It is so hard to explain RF energy to the fear harboring public that thinks that 4G and 5G means microwave ovens. AM towers have been here forever. And as far as I can see, put out the most power, so people can sit back and watch the television shows and communicate as intended. I love videos like this they show the pure power of RF energy. While showing how it is not affecting them and dissipating into the Earth.
Well Tbf 5 g does have a band at 450 MHz - 6Ghz which includes the ~2.5 GHz frequency used by microwave ovens. The difference is they aren’t putting out 10000 Watts of pure 2.5 GHz energy and instead are much much lower. That being said I still wouldn’t advise you to climb a cell tower and crank one up to maximum transmission energies while standing in front of it. Microwave radiation at high transmission energies are absolutely dangerous for human exposure even at other frequencies which is why you can’t be around high power radar systems when they’re running.
@@cjwild1 Well 2.4GHz is the worst as it's a resonant frequency of the water, meaning it heats it up. As we go into higher frequencies they often stop at dead skin layer, causing barely noticeable heating at worst, and one would have to be really close to a highly directional cell antenna, as those output at most 10-15W, at least here in Europe.
@@MrTalon63This is s common fallacy, 2.4 GHz is not the resonant frequency of water. This frequency was chosen as a compromise between multiple parameters; absorption vs penetration by the food, cost and size of the microwave generator (magnetron in this case) and the number of nodes that would be generated in the oven cavity to give more even cooking. If you look at the electromagnetic absorption spectrum of water frequencies higher than 2.4GHz would be absorbed more efficiently, but also penetrates less deeply so would exacerbate the "uncooked in the middle" problem.
Cell phone bandwidth safe exposure is entirely unknown and variable on the phone. And not only that but the exposure hasn't been tested for long term safety and health effects, it's been tested for surface burns, so as long as it doesn't burn your skin on contact, it's harmless right? Says the FCC.
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.
I visited the radio museum attached to the Lahti radio station in the early 1980s. I think we were very close to the transmitter, I remember being told that the big cabinet on the wall was a mercury rectifier. Crystal radios played music without an antenna. The fluorescent tubes were burning in the corner of the room, just leaning against the wall. There were some ropes with metal fittings on the ends. The purpose of the ropes was to limit the areas where the audience could go. When you put your finger near the metal, an arc of light would come on between the end of your finger and the metal. You couldn't weld anything with it, though.
I used to service a fire alarm that had slide in modules for the circuits. They were constantly getting blown out and would have to replace them. One day, I was hearing an AM radio station through my phone butt set. I looked around and saw a tower that I had never paid any attention to. I knew it was there, but I nevertheless thought about it. I put capacitors across the circuits to ground, and that resolved it. It probably didn't meet code, but it worked.
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! 🤓❤️
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
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
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.
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.
👍 I used to work on a pirate radio ship broadcasting on the AM. Seagulls and other birdies which wanted to rest and came near our 300ft mast would lose control and crash ons deck. 😮 Once I climbed upon the roof of the bridge and got a severe headache so I went down as fast as lightning 😂
I love the fact that AM radio towers have balls of steel.
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?”
@@Uncleharkinian😎
@@Uncleharkinian I saw other ones that used a ring inside of another ring
@@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
@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.
Love how the voice frequencies come through in the arch
Watch the one where they do it with plants.
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.
Hahaha yeah that should be made more clear that we're hearing the broadcast across the arc
Yeah I heard it!
@@dennis8196I have no idea what half of that means but it is awesome.
This stuff must have been so incredible when it was being invented/ discovered cause its STILL mind-blowingly cool today!
THEY STILL LYING TO US.. THEY ARE HIDING TRUE HUMAN BOŇD SHATTERING.
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.
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.
That is a reflector element for the other radiating element designed to propagate signal towards a set direction and distance.
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. 😳
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.
My grandfather said he could hear music playing from a local radio station in the barbed wire fencing.
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!
@@garymericano.. perfectly👌normal my friend 😉 😉...........😜
Some of the early US radio stations were CRAZY before they got regulated.
@@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
@100GTAGUY Or your a powerful Warlock unrealised.
You can hear the broadcast in the ark, that's wild 😂😮🤯
Arc. It's not a boat.
@@The_DuMont_Network😂😂
Yeah noah intalled a radio in that unit
Yeah it’s AM radio so really not much required to demodulate that…
Don't think it can go back in time to Noah lol
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.
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.
@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!
This is like top 10 in terms of cool and interesting shorts on UA-cam. Thank you.
Is the sound coming through that arc?
You heard right
Everything is transmitted in light of u think about it
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
@@kuppih4933 electrons are negative charge...
Parece que alcansa demodular algo de sonido proveniente de la estacion que esta encendida
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.
In a world where literal *rocks* can send and receive radio broadcasts, how tf do we claim magic isn't real? 😂
I had a crystal radio, I used it to listen to Houston Colt 45's baseball games. ;-)
I heard the sound of a woman yelling “no no help! Can anybody hear me” and then static
@@unbearifiedbear1885you think that’s crazy you should check out Billy Carson. His break down on rock technology is insane.
@@MeEncantaKiley💀
I wish I knew more about this stuff. Fascinating.
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 😊😊
I appreciate that and I will look it over. Thank you.
Tesla's view on wireless energy has some overlap i think.
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.
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".
I bet the FCC would be real happy with me using a 3kw transmitter as a welder 😂
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.
They don't care. They're pretty understanding people. Lol.
@@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.
Nobody listens to AM anymore. FCC enforcement would never know.
Not since we lost Rush Limbaugh @@mnw1871
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.
My grandmother lived near some towers in Oregon and speakers on her stereo would get some signal off em.
That's pretty cool, you should have tried to use some of that power emission for work!
Si quedaba en posición tape se infiltrada las frecuencias por los cabezales magnéticos
Thats so rad dude.
Hearing the brocast in the arc just makes me love this feald ..
some guys call us sparkie.. lol
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
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!
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.
@@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
@@devilsoffspring5519 Didn't have access or could afford the equipment.
@@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!
Looks like mr Tesla was on to something with that wireless power transmission thing lol
You clearly don't understand Tesla if you believe it's going through the air.
@@devinmccloudwhat’s it going thru? A booty hole? 🕳️
No, wireless power transmission was Tesla's biggest failure, and this video just shows how impractical it would be.
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???
@@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! 😀
It all just starts playing Coast to Coast with George Noory
@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.
Strange radio show, that after midnight am radio show.
@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.
There are reruns of art bell's broadcasts on UA-cam. Every now and then I'll listen for nostalgia.
The nostalgia. My friend's dad drinking in the basement, listening to short wave radio, talking about aliens walking among us.
About a decade ago, I climbed a similar tower for fun late at night, listening to music to keep me calm. Almost to the top, my headphones actually picked up on radio transmissions. Freaked me out. Always wondered how my chances are now of having kids?
Shows the power of resonance. You can also hear the transmission through the arc being created. Awesome
Thats amazing, who needs a diode when an arc can just be power modulated to hear the station 😂
You should be able to buy a radio that does thiat, just arcing away the latest tunes.
@@joebonomono5078 you're looking at one. Probably only a couple million
@@joebonomono5078 they make them. Plasma speakers. Google them.
Um spark gap radio
@@213BRANDONP yes, but generally thats relegated to transmitters only. And those transmitters have been outlawed since the 30’s
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.
Wow
Is this actually true? It makes sense
@@mikelowry1904 well when ya think bout it it does make sense
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.
Now that os a fun fact sir! 🎩 off to you
That's so awesome. Radio waves and energy are insane
Love the fact that you can hear the modulation from the other radio tower!
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.
I have to disagree... the towers don't move, lol. Bah dum, chshhh.
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
@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.
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
It's free energy!
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
I've never heard of that. That's fascinating and very clever.
I miss those little open frame motors!
Tyco , AFX and Gplus days were lit!
Thats awesome!
Very cool, thanks for sharing
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
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.
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…”
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!
@@TaylorIRLhow did I get this electrocution? What are my treatment options? How will this affect my loved ones?
That's what she said
$5 if you pee on it.
Tesla spoke of transmitting power across the world this way
Yeah and he was wrong
And even if was right, the fools that keep talking about free electricity, lol need to stop.
Not exactly this way, no
uhhh it does work... we use it everyday ya toolbag.
Power drops as the square of the distance.
My favorite part is when you hear the weather forecast through that burning screw
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.
What??
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 😂
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.
@@bigtexuntex7825 so, it's real?! The thing about hearing the broadcast through an old metal filling??
Is you're name Scotty ?
@@hstone0808Yes I’ve heard the sound of screams and kidnapped victims fading into other stations
@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!
Another demonstration of Tesla's ideas. Thank you sir. Wonderful post
You just welded your first personal broadcast live!..😄
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.
Great demonstration
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
Now imagine a 2MW (2000kW) transmitter. Hungary, Radio Kossuth @ Solt, 540kHz.
Whoa!! You can actually partially hear the radio transmission through the electrical arc, that's amazing!
Wholly wireless energy transfer batman…
That was awesome!
So Nikolai Tesla’s whole wireless power thing is real?
And probably not verry good for your health
@@glennverdeyen5685 anti 5G folks would go nuts
You're stupid. @glennverdeyen5685
@@lukahierl9857but AM radio is 0G though
Exactly what I was thinking
HOLY SHITTTTTT. I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED IT TO BE THAT MUCH!
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 UA-cam tours. Well worth warching.
I remember as a kid building a crystal radio with an empty toilet paper cartridge and insulated copper wire. Connected it to my metal kitchen sink and picked up AM stations. It was pretty cool
Wow. I had no idea that was possible lol. I love when i find these gems on UA-cam whwn i wasnt even looking up anything about radio towers. Thank you.
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.
I love the usage of "dry air" here instead of air with less moisture content hahaha
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.
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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
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.
I hear you get in quite a bit of trouble fooling around with that kind of stuff.
That's fantastic.
Dude you just stopped my BO
Sounds like an urban legend but I so WANT it to be true
you can light a neon light pulp just standing next to the antenna
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
I always found this phenomenon amazing.
Jup! Thanks for sharing.
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.
While he was welding that screw for demonstrations, pbs lost it's signal 😂
I mean, maybe in one direction a bit
Better that NPR loses it
Definitely remind me of my Tesla coil. So cool to hear music come out of a copper wire. Damn near magical.
AM stands for amplitude modulation for those of you wondering what AM stands for. FM stands for frequency modulation.😊
Some?! lol. Your getting enough power to weld with. 😂
Not sure about that. From the angle of the shadow, it could be PM.
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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.
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.
Listening to am radio: what am I hearing
Love how you can hear the broadcasters voice through the arc from the piwer of the briadcast signal.
Radio people are the coolest they always know these neat tricks that you’d never even imagine
I know you’re not a tall metal tower but that phenomenon makes me not want to stand anywhere near AM towers. That’s a lot of radiated energy!
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.
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.😃
And a crap load of earplugs if you want to keep your sanity, or get any sleep.
@@dispatch444 capacitors.
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.
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.
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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.
I absolutely love learning and seeing information like this and would be extra grateful to you for providing more of this sort of content!
And tha fact that it's AM. Wow. Very educational. Thank you good sir.
Anybody with fluorescent lighting within 2 mi radius probably doesn't need electricity to have lighting!
Expand on that please
@@user-jl3vt6vc4v 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.
Nice speaker screw, it was trying to transmit through the arc...😂
Very interesting.
All that energy is flowing through your body too
You are a genius guy
It is so hard to explain RF energy to the fear harboring public that thinks that 4G and 5G means microwave ovens. AM towers have been here forever. And as far as I can see, put out the most power, so people can sit back and watch the television shows and communicate as intended. I love videos like this they show the pure power of RF energy. While showing how it is not affecting them and dissipating into the Earth.
Well Tbf 5 g does have a band at 450 MHz - 6Ghz which includes the ~2.5 GHz frequency used by microwave ovens. The difference is they aren’t putting out 10000 Watts of pure 2.5 GHz energy and instead are much much lower. That being said I still wouldn’t advise you to climb a cell tower and crank one up to maximum transmission energies while standing in front of it. Microwave radiation at high transmission energies are absolutely dangerous for human exposure even at other frequencies which is why you can’t be around high power radar systems when they’re running.
@@cjwild1 Well 2.4GHz is the worst as it's a resonant frequency of the water, meaning it heats it up. As we go into higher frequencies they often stop at dead skin layer, causing barely noticeable heating at worst, and one would have to be really close to a highly directional cell antenna, as those output at most 10-15W, at least here in Europe.
@@MrTalon63This is s common fallacy, 2.4 GHz is not the resonant frequency of water. This frequency was chosen as a compromise between multiple parameters; absorption vs penetration by the food, cost and size of the microwave generator (magnetron in this case) and the number of nodes that would be generated in the oven cavity to give more even cooking.
If you look at the electromagnetic absorption spectrum of water frequencies higher than 2.4GHz would be absorbed more efficiently, but also penetrates less deeply so would exacerbate the "uncooked in the middle" problem.
@@ferrumignisthank you, one of best explanations I have read about this.
Cell phone bandwidth safe exposure is entirely unknown and variable on the phone. And not only that but the exposure hasn't been tested for long term safety and health effects, it's been tested for surface burns, so as long as it doesn't burn your skin on contact, it's harmless right? Says the FCC.
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.
Kick ass video showing electrical principles!
Makes me neck shiver thinking of all that power in the air
Not exactly how it works
@@SortaSkilledhe showed exactly how it works. The antenna just melted a nail. From power in the air.
A lightning strike is 10 GIGAWATTS 😬🤣. The power from that radio tower is insignificant.
I feel it too
@jasonspink981 except its constant, not a one time event.
I visited the radio museum attached to the Lahti radio station in the early 1980s. I think we were very close to the transmitter, I remember being told that the big cabinet on the wall was a mercury rectifier. Crystal radios played music without an antenna. The fluorescent tubes were burning in the corner of the room, just leaning against the wall. There were some ropes with metal fittings on the ends. The purpose of the ropes was to limit the areas where the audience could go. When you put your finger near the metal, an arc of light would come on between the end of your finger and the metal. You couldn't weld anything with it, though.
Holy crap! This stuff is flowing throughout the area.
I used to service a fire alarm that had slide in modules for the circuits. They were constantly getting blown out and would have to replace them. One day, I was hearing an AM radio station through my phone butt set. I looked around and saw a tower that I had never paid any attention to. I knew it was there, but I nevertheless thought about it. I put capacitors across the circuits to ground, and that resolved it. It probably didn't meet code, but it worked.
The real question here is - Who did Nikola Tesla hear when he claimed he could pick up voices with his wireless energy tower?! 😮
Guglielmo Marconi
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Crazy you can hear what's being transmitted.
That’s amazing I was always interested in cb radios and police scanners but never had the time to SCREW around with it 😂
Great demonstration!!! I work at an AM as well...
People tend not to believe the truth behind the RADIOACTIVE warning signs.
I could hear the transmission of the other tower through the arc thats badass I would love to learn this
Tesla knew all about it...
We're going to need those. Soon
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! 🤓❤️
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
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
Neat story! Damn
Was you in wv by chance?
green Bay?
No shot it was CB. Ham. HF probably
Florida
I’m so glad this is the first thing I see when I wake up.
Balls of steel...actually SPEAKING. that's amazing
Tony Stark built this in a cave, with scraps!
A *_box_* of scraps, iirc. 🤔
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.
Something tells me you have been punched in the face a few times...
What an awkward way to say this. Learn to be succinct.
I do concur!
I do like a bit of word salad for a light lunch.
Simply amazing isn't it
Spark rectifier, plasma speaker, tuned circuit, all in that one spark!
Welp that's gotta be the coolest thing I've seen all year. The people who figured this stuff out as well as electricity we owe a debt of gratitude.
That much is induced into that antenna? That's nuts.
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.
Amazing. And it almost sounds like Paul Harvey.
👍 I used to work on a pirate radio ship broadcasting on the AM. Seagulls and other birdies which wanted to rest and came near our 300ft mast would lose control and crash ons deck. 😮
Once I climbed upon the roof of the bridge and got a severe headache so I went down as fast as lightning 😂