In article ,
peter berrett wrote:
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Trouble is that there is still a risk that just as pull into the station you
transmit a signal and somebody filling up on the other side of your pump
gets toasted.
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How would this happen? Could there really be sparking from the aerial
or something (which you think you'd notice because it might interfere
with your radio operation) or could it just get really hot? Is the
idea that the EM radiation alone could cause ignition? I just have a
hard time understanding this risk - the only blowing-up instances I'm
aware of involved naked flames, yet you'd have thought that cars were
inherently full of spark potential anyway being full of metal bits
with high-current wiring.

-- Mark