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That spark gap between those balls are called Johnny balls not sure how they got that name. Why is the RF on when working on the tower?

hey let's do some welding lol

Wonder if this is the arc of the covenant type effect. Specific gap

Not as bad ass as touching with your bare hand. 1968! WALG in Albany, Ga.
Ouch!

You can feel your bone marrow pleasantly warming.

Good thumbnail

My uncle's barber shop near the old 3 story KOMA had all kinds of inductive anomalies.

I lived near a large AM antenna array outside of melbourne in my younger years, on a still day the fences around the perimeter could be heard playing music, it was quite cool.

I wonder what the voltage is?

Aaaand boom, you are infertille

it does happen i work at wmba in ambridge pa they have 3 towers and 500 watts

Is the antenna transmitting?

How much kW ? On this antenna

Has anyone out there ever had to climb and repair a hot tower? I have.

Imagine that going through to your heart

Imagine it blasting through your head and all you hear is "O' o' o', O' Reilly! Auto parts!" blasting through your bones as you slowly melt into an electrified stump of charred flesh and ash

Oh wow this was in Downers Grove? 😮

Imagine hearing the radio play when someone gets electrocuted 💀💀

lick it

If you get fried on am AM tower, no better place then to find a good lawyer or how to save money on car insurance.

It even affected the camera image, though it seems due to the bright arc rather than RF.

I never seen a taking Spark before😂

In the northwest suburbs of Chicago in 1970 there was a Hispanic AM radio station that was so strong, it got into everything. The music was quite excellent! Got myself into broadcast and fifteen years later was a commercial tower inspector for Federal Electric. Those were the days! Climbing all the time, antenna repair, feedline repair, guy wire tensioning, between heaven and earth. Each day it rained, we got paid to do nothing. Falling ice was a real hazard, as were dropped tools. Long gone are the days, at least for me. The reason a crescent wrench has a hole in the handle is to put a rope through it, so when you drop it, it doesn't fall and kill somebody on the ground. Terrific view from up there! Closer to the heavens and far from any harm. Peaceful, quiet, just you and the wind, which can be mighty wild above the treetops.

Dude playing with electricity "Pretty badass" Nice

I grew up on the dead end of Williams st on the east end of that field. You could hear the radio station through the power outlets. That was with the old towers. When they replaced the towers with the current ones around 2007 you couldn't hear it anymore.

My friend worked on transmitters at what BBC called The Green Service, BBC World Service to everyone else. One short wave transmitter he operated had a small shunting train to change a coil for frequency changes. They had 5 minutes to stop the transmitter, open the door, uncouple one coil, shunt it out and replace it with a new one and hook that up. They capacitor was retuned with a very large wheel. The building had air conditioning for the summer, but no heating. In the winter they parked under the cooling outlet, which played World Service from the grids covering the opening. He said that on a very cold winter day he'd still have to open the windows as he drove off, to cool the car down. Back in the days when the BBC was the voice of the UK and not trying to appeal to people all over the world by being inclusive. I used to listen for the BBC news and commentary. When they started asking people who lived in the backend of nowhere in Africa for their opinion... well that wasn't the British Broadcasting Corporation anymore.

KCUF.

Voice spark modulation ( radio not required ? ) ......................... DAVE™🛑

Discovers arc: starts welding with no shielding gas

You know electricity is serious when the camera dont even want anything to do with it

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Your camera lense did not appreciate those sparks 😂

i like how the static electrisity made artifacts on the video

Set up a cot, cures arthritis in 20 minutes!

Use your tongue like on a 9 volt battery

Another Sparky Speaker. 💙 T.E.N.

Was the voice coming out of the spark?

I love the friend in the background who you can faintly here at one point say "Go ahead and shock yourself" and "Uh Steve....Uh..don't...don't"

You got any more I like this

Who's here from listening to radio with grass

It looked like he was going to jump start the van

Lol your friend was not super happy. "Steve, Its starting to smell. Uh, dont mess wi- ah"

Do you mind if I use a few seconds of this footage for an upcoming educational video i'm producing? Thank you in advance.

Imagine if you touched it and the last thing you heard was your own bones playing Katty Perry music