"Dave" wrote in message
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even if you aren't touching something you have a much larger surface area
to
act as a capacitive path to ground for the rf.

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Yes. One of the standard tools used during RADHAZ inspectiions at RF
transmitters sites is an RF Burn Gun. (It's shaped like a gun for
convenience of holding and use.) It measures the RF potential on metallic
structures near a transmit antenna and the tech is part of the circuit,
coupling to ground. Current limiting in the RF Burn Gun keeps the tech from
harm while he reads the potential off a meter in the "gun."

It strikes me that the measurement accuracy varies with operating frequency
and size of the tech (via collective X-sub-C). With my big butt and short
legs, I might offer more coupling to ground than you scrawny people.

There's a great difference between working on antenna conductors and
60 Hz power lines.

Body capacitance is all-important at HF. At 60 Hz it is the
conduction path which matters. Workmen can be enclosed in Faraday
screens.