[HN Gopher] We made a hot dog talk with RF [video]
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       We made a hot dog talk with RF [video]
        
       Author : geerlingguy
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-03-28 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | gambiting wrote:
       | There's loads of videos of bored russian teenagers doing this
       | with leafs and blades of grass held with their bare hands too,
       | but yeah.....pretty cool. Only works with AM radio as far as I
       | understand though.
        
         | joecool1029 wrote:
         | One such old example:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuJKsUjD_o
        
       | mock-possum wrote:
       | Wow the arc utterly obliterates the hot dog at the point of
       | contact.
        
       | biomcgary wrote:
       | Is the hot dog vibrating to produce sound or is the sound from
       | hot dog derived plasma? The auditory frequency distortion seems
       | minimal, so I'm betting plasma.
        
         | geerlingguy wrote:
         | It's the plasma--the hot dog was just a convenient path for the
         | energy to flow. The actual material vaporized pretty quickly,
         | definitely don't touch a live AM tower while standing on the
         | ground. And probably ever, unless it's locked out and de-
         | energized! (Especially if you're not a radio engineer or tower
         | climber.)
        
       | garciasn wrote:
       | Don't ever touch a tower.
       | 
       | Important safety tip, Egon; thanks.
        
       | chezball wrote:
       | Why in the world is the fence around that so short? This is nuts!
       | I would have jumped that as a kid to climb the tower. Probably
       | not in bare feet or the rain. It seems strange to not protect
       | this better (yes, i know, kids are not supposed to be there, but
       | kids are (properly) designed for finding trouble.)
        
         | geerlingguy wrote:
         | There's a small fence around each tower with signage indicating
         | the RF danger. Then around the whole property there's a horse-
         | height fence, with a locked gate. And around that there are a
         | few miles of soggy farmland, so it's pretty low risk.
         | 
         | Site plans have to include certain safety precautions, and
         | fence type, placement, height, etc. are all submitted to the
         | FCC when a tower site is designed or rebuilt.
        
       | 1letterunixname wrote:
       | Related classics:
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       | https://youtu.be/n2ZZbuOeNmw
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       | (2019) Veratasium grape microwave plasma https://youtu.be/wCrtk-
       | pyP0I
       | 
       | (2022) BigClive The dangers of microwave transformers
       | https://youtu.be/FBeSKL9zVro
       | 
       | (2016) BigClive Electrocution risk of cheap USB chargers
       | https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
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       | (2020) ElectroBOOM proves 5G isn't going to give you cancer or
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