Matt Blaze@mattblaze@federate.social
Note, important safety tip: you can get closer to this tower without clearly trespassing or jumping fences than most other 50KW broadcast antennas I've encountered. I measured a field strength of over 80V/m a bit outside the tower fence, which is an incredibly strong signal (though still within OSHA limits at the frequency involved).
Resist any temptation to jump the fence and climb the (energized) tower. You'd be electrocuted as soon as you touched it.
jwz@jwz@mastodon.social
@mattblaze@federate.social Not that I have any interest in testing it, but I'm curious about the "electrocuted as soon as you touch it" part. I assume that means the tower dumps a bunch of juice between you and ground, but if it was that easy, wouldn't there be a constant lightshow of arcs around its base as twigs, leaves, pigeons and squirrels got vaporized?