On 4/22/11 07:01 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:



Side story: The 50 kW AM outlet of a TV station I once worked for
was actually (dimly) lighting an incandescent lamp in a nearby home
that was located in the main lobe of the directional pattern. People
also were getting shocks from their rabbit ears TV antennas.



When I worked in Iowa, the array was in a cornfield west of town.
A developer bought the land directly north of the array (we beamed
5kw nearly straight north) and built a subdivision there. The back
yard of some of those homes ran up to the fence around the array.

One of the features of these homes was recessed flourescent tube
lighting in both the basement and the garage.

One cluster of 5 homes, not only did the owners get my radio
station on their refrigerators, but the flourscent lights could not
be turned off.