"Stinger" wrote in message . ..
Whenever we had a "rookie" at one AM radio station I once worked for, they
would get an old, burned out flourescent bulb, and walk out to the base of
the tower. Once you got within a few feet of it, the flourescent bulb would
light up all by itself due to the RF. After that, the part-timers had a
deep respect for the wattage in that tower.

-- Stinger

It doesn't take too many watts to do that though. I can do the same
thing if I parallel a flourescent bulb next to my mobile antenna. 100w
will fire it up nice and bright.
Probably takes maybe 15-20w or so to get the bulb to initially fire.
Once you do that, it will stay lit even if you drop the power a bit.
MK