Wonder why it's not a tall chain-link fence with razor wire on the top as it would be in most other countries... (Edit: Thank's for the likes. I now think it might be because a metal fence could become itself live, and therefore a shock hazard as well given how close from the tower it is). Maybe a taller wooden fence with razor wire on the top could work instead of a chain-link one ?
Q: How is it making sound? A: It's a amplitude modulated radio wave. A peak in the audio is a peak in radio energy at the tower base. These silly guys are drawing an arc off the energized tower, and the arc heats the air, causing it to expand. But because the energy through the arc is modulated by the audio signal, the heat is also modulated, and so it makes acoustic waves in the air.
In the late 1960s my family lived in a home in Escondido, CA, USA. The window screens were wire, galvanized steel, I think. Some of the screen wires could vibrate to the frequency of a local AM radio station. My mother discovered the phenomenom, one day she was in the house and heard music outside the window. She went outside to locate the sound and realized it was coming from the screen. The whole family heard it and my father listened long enough to hear the station’s call sign. It was KFI-AM 640 in Burbank, CA! Their power is 50k watts.
The old metal fillings on peoples teeth bounced the signals around in their mouths and made it slightly audible, lot of people were treated like they were insane, you don't hear about it anymore, but I had a tooth that could do it, it eventually went away as the metal wore flatter
10k per hemisphere right? More power is just to compete for signal strength... At what point do we consider it a brain frying weapon? If the garage door clicker is amplified by the brain and gains more distance, imagine this... Who tf listens to this bs anyway??!
@@CriminalonCrime well at least back in the day their teeth played music and they could explain what they heard and if it matched a particular station people could connect the dots What about now when everything is digital, try explaining to ur doctor u hear strange unexplanable noises, they are to weak to decode with a computer into something usable so noone would believe u
The best thing about the video is that these guys are wearing protective uniforms, which means they are the actual technicians who are supposed to work with this equipment. Yet, they don’t care at all about health or safety, because they wanna share something cool with the world.
Their dialogue at the beginning basically boils down to "oWWWWW IT HEATS UP A LOT" "do you know why" "no lol". later on they get surprised when they burn a hole through their glove. I have a feeling they are not licensed professionals-
Nah bro. This is before cavemen. Cavemen used the stone dials in the side of their caves, next to the rock oven. This is some hunter gatherer nomad shit right here.
@@miffinalpha3447 Hear me out, the people of America doesn't dislike Russia. Our politicians make each other out to seem crazy but I also believe they are not a representation of a whole country. I feel like this might be the case in Russia as well. All cultures have values, many of which are similar. I'm certain there is common ground in that.
@@Mrfallouthero это всё понятно и довольно и очевидно для человека, умеющего размышлять. К сожалению, сейчас таких все меньше и меньше. Но как это относится к моему комментарию? Человек пошутил, я поддержал шутку
When I played tabletop I hated how the most useful Speak spell was, ironically, Speak With Stone. A dwarf geomancer worked a stone to conceal it in such way even a dwarf mason would recognize it as virgin rock? The stone will name and shame seven generations of said geomancer and reveal its hidden cache to spite the guy who carved it. Trees in general do not know even the current weather.
SONGS IN ENGLISH: Я не буду плакати by Наталія Валевська VALEVSKA And Моє літо by Світлана Весна aka Svitlana Vesna Just copy paste them in the search bar.
I had a broken headset that couldn’t play sound from my PC, but when it was plugged in with power it would pick up a random radio station in my town; it was almost too quiet to hear. Sometimes I’d just plug it in and turn it all the way up and listen to it out of curiosity. Forget what station it was but it was a news and talk show.
This is crazy to find here. My cheap dollar store speakers that I have had since high school, over 10 years now, pick up all sorts of things. Mostly it's a nearby country radio station when the plug is messed up, but I've also faintly overheard what sounds like phone calls and even police chatter, but I can't make anything out. I usually use headphones, but I've never gotten rid of them because I don't think I could find another set that does it even if I tried. I'd love to know why this happens.
I'm delighted by finding this conversation here, because I tried to make sense of my Sony WH1000-XM4 Bluetooth headset picking up a radio station at home when there's dead silent. I only experiences it a few times over a month. It was extremely faint and I couldn't quite hear what song it was. Some hip hop genre. It might not be a radio station, but it picked up something. Very interesting.
I had a broken headset that would play sound, but thered be things missing from the original audio at times. For example, when I listened to a song that included an instrumental and 2 vocal tracks (a deeper and a higher version of the same lyric), it'd completely filter out the instrumental and one of the vocal tracks, leaving behind nothing but an awkward singing voice. I recorded a clip of it a while ago, I wanna find it again. It made some songs sound really weird and others didn't affect it at all. Now I kinda wish I would've kept that headset for giggles.
Music playing from burning grass. No matter how much scientific explanation there is for this, it just seems like fucking magic. Edit: Didn't think my comment would blow up lol
@@samdiak2477 This is an AM transmitter. The sound waves themselves are encoded into the voltage. When you create an arc with a conductor (at high enough voltage anything can be a conductor) the arcs themselves follow the sound waves, so you can hear them.
@@zarrowthehorsethey are creating a connection to ground, though the resistance is very high so there's not enough current to kill. As for the sound, I think it's the air in the tiny gap between the tower and the plant literally vibrating quick enough to make the sound.
And THIS is why you should NEVER touch an AM radio tower. If it can burn grass, then it will burn the f*ck out of you. EDIT: I did not expect THIS MANY likes lol
Not only that, but it will mainly conduct through the first few millimeters of your skin, which will be excruciatingly painful! You will have red "tree branch" patterns all over you from the breakdown.
Knew a guy who's dad own a cable Tv company and they were running cable for a customer and he was on the telephone pole and wasnt wearing his hardhat a primary arched and struck him, his dad had just finished talking to him and was walking away and said the sky lit up so he turn around and his son was hanging by his life line on fire! By the time he got him down all his clothes were burnt off and what was left fit in a sandwich bag. He spent many days in the hospital, almost died, left him scared for the rest of his life with no hair cause his head was covered in scar tissue. 80% of his body was burned from electricity. That shit is NO JOKE!🙆♂️
You missed to say that's a mast radiator antenna, it s special design of am antenna with height equal to a quarter of wavelenght or better. If you dont say this nobody would understand the video. In a regular antenna the mast is ground if im not wrong. These guys are risking their lives standing next to high rf power, it shall be very shocking to contact.
Any exposed antenna element with enough RF to generate arcs is good enough to do this. It doesn't matter the antenna type. This particular type still has radials buried underneath the ground to serve as a ground plane, just like any other broadcast monopole. This would've worked with a regular dipole.
@@AmSleepyJay I'm pretty sure most would at least use a base to get the antenna up a few meters. The one in this video is a fire hazard from grass or debris contacting it. Another common design is stringing the antenna between grounded towers as mentioned above.
Why are you the only person explaining anything??? I'm genuinely curious. I cannot find a single comment asking why this is happening, and then you are the only person explaining anything. Is literally nobody curious as to why? Or does everyone already know why? This is actually frustrating me lol
@@zarrowthehorse I do not know, I had never stopped to think why do I do these type of comments. Maybe I like attention, maybe I just like to share useless information.
@@fortunateson6070 Bandit radio is a banger lol. Best game ever, too. Nothing like being in the Garbage and the music getting louder and louder as you go rush the train yard.
@DukeChameleon The OG stalker trilogy is made in Ukraine, but the language and music are in russian. The new Stalker is going to be in ukranian I believe.
we have a long ethernet cable in the wall, and if i plug in my headphones into the laptop, with the ethernet attached i can hear AM radio for a few seconds the from the moment i turn the computer off
should have asked Car Toys to install an AM transmitter and 7 square feet of sod behind the back seat in my Tacoma instead of two 10” subwoofers; it sounds pretty good here
They are giving themselves RF burns in their hands every time they touch the grass to the antenna. The first guy looks like he didn't expect a simple AM radio antenna to be dangerous like that and he's quite surprised at how much it hurts. Anybody who's worked in amateur radio will tell you "Oh yes, RF burns hurt very much". Like getting stabbed in the hand with an icepick, and they take a long time to heal.
oh i get it they are listening to the radio using grass but grass also means weed so it's like you listen to music after smoking weed when you're high hahahahahahahahahahahah
1st important thing - this is AM radio tower. To be honest - they pretty safe enough, they even wearing resin boots and gloves, good guys. The bad side is - anything which can work as ground - will heat up very badly (they say it in the video)
If you are far away from the emitters it shouldn't be dangerous, the radiations these emit are microwaves and should be relatively low power (unless you litterally go in front of said emitters on the tower) the real danger is touching the tower itself since it's like a big exposed cable. Note: military stuff is 200 times more dangerous but I doubt you will ever get close enough.
Workers climb radio and TV antenna towers everyday while they are transmitting and spend hours on them. Someone needs to replace the lights at the top. There are videos if you look for them.
Something cool about this is that even these small stocks of grass touching the tower can noticeably affect its range. The energy put into burning the grass to create sound waves draws enough energy that signals at the edge of the tower's range can actually dip out of reception. There's a similar video where some engineers use hot dogs to achieve the same effect, and they explain the energy draw in full.
I'll try to explain ....That antenna is broadcasting, quite literally, waves of electromagnetic energy through the air. The electricity in that antenna is practically "humming". AM radio is using amplification of the wave to carry the signal into the air but the signal is so weak you need an antenna of the right material, shape, orientation and length to "catch" that signal and preserve it. That is, unless you get so close to that EXTREMELY powerful antenna that you conduct the electricity directly off of it. As it's jumping to the conductor, in this case grass, it's still "humming" with amplification, so that is what you are hearing and since that grass appears to have some hollowness to it, that's probably making it easier to hear. It's really not any different than what your radio would do, except you're so close to the source that the shear power of the electricity itself is creating vibrations in the air without needing a specific antenna to catch the signal and amplifier to make your speaker move.
This is an AM transmitter. The sound waves themselves are encoded into the voltage. When you create an arc with a conductor (at high enough voltage anything can be a conductor) the arcs themselves follow the sound waves, so you can hear them.
An antenna is basically a long metal rod that you supply your radio signal to. Your ultimate goal is to create electromagnetic waves with it, but those are not relevant for this effect. The only relevant part of that here is that the stronger the electromagnetic waves you want the create, the higher the voltage you need to supply to your antenna. The transmitter in the video is of very high power, where the voltage supplied to the antenna reaches thousands of volts, enough to create arcs. Arcs heat up the air, causing it to expand, thereby creating pressure changes that can be perceived as sound. The antenna in the video belongs to an AM station, which means that the strength of the radio signal and thereby the voltage supplied to the antenna is modulated by the audio signal you want to transmit. This is the reason why the arc is able to demodulate the radio signal, because a higher voltage leads to a stronger arc and therefore higher sound pressure, whereas a lower voltage leads to a weaker arc, creating a lower sound pressure. The actual transmitting is not relevant for this to work, the only important thing is the high voltage fed (presumably) to the base of the antenna that is being modulated with the audio signal.
I like how we were taught to hop on one leg to prevent any step potential and fry us to death but these two are cooking grass. Fun fact for the satellite dish, you become microwaved food
@@swaos4654 Sorry for the really late reply. AM radio towers are extremely dangerous. To transmit signals over long distances, they require a tremendous amount of power. At a regular receiving distance, you might receive only milli- or microwatts, this decreases rapidly with distance according to the inverse square law. Conversely, the closer you are to the tower, the more hazardous it becomes. So being close to it like a few meters would expose you to radiation like you are in a microwave. Touching it would kill you, your feet is touching the ground and you touching it connects you to the tower which has a lot of power which is voltage and current. And current flows to the least resistance and right now it would be you. So you will be cooked. I assume the grass had a high power rating but as you could see it still burned up and his hand was in pain from holding it. The plant did the most 'power consuming' in this video.
_So being close to it like a few meters would expose you to radiation like you are in a microwave._ AM isn't microwave, it's radiowaves with a wavelength in the hundreds to thousand meters. Those long waves pass through your body with virtually no absorption and thus have no effect on you at all, despite the high power level at the source. So no, you won't feel anything, no warmth, no nothing, when standing a meter in front of an AM transmitter like that. The only danger of radiowaves is the risk of the high voltage electricity arching through your body when you're almost touching the emitter, like it does to the grass in this video. Other than that you're correct
@@LRM12o8 here's the answer I was looking for. I wasn't 100% sure about the absorption of different wavelengths, but it just didn't make sense that people were saying there guys would heat up. Someone said that their teeth filings would heat up. That's also incorrect right?
I dunno what they were saying, but everyone understands screams of pain. Radio is my lifetime hobby and I enjoy watching a dumb*** do something I wouldn't do on a dare. Hats off to you, friend!
@@Nicholas-ze5vv wrong. There is no conclusive evidence that RF can cause genotoxic effects. It can heat up the body, but it is much much less efficient than microwaves at doing so.
Now this is fascinating. It further expands the sense of interconnectedness among every functionality in the world, and how just, peculiarly big, unexpectable, and yet familiar it is. It enlightened a philosophical aspect.
I'll try to explain ....That antenna is broadcasting, quite literally, waves of electromagnetic energy through the air. The electricity in that antenna is practically "humming". AM radio is using amplification of the wave to carry the signal into the air but the signal is so weak you need an antenna of the right material, shape, orientation and length to "catch" that signal and preserve it. That is, unless you get so close to that EXTREMELY powerful antenna that you conduct the electricity directly off of it. As it's jumping to the conductor, in this case grass, it's still "humming" with amplification, so that is what you are hearing and since that grass appears to have some hollowness to it, that's probably making it easier to hear. It's really not any different than what your radio would do, except you're so close to the source that the shear power of the electricity itself is creating vibrations in the air without needing a specific antenna to catch the signal and amplifier to make your speaker move.
This is why you should never touch an AM radio tower. Electrical potential in those towers is huge and they are not grounded. If you touch one, you become the ground and it will kill you and it will hurt a lot the whole time you are dying.
I like to consider myself pretty well read, but I refuse to pretend that I understand the dangers of electricity. That shit terrifies me to no end because one slip could mean death if you don't know whats going on.
I remember way back when our guitarist had like 5 meters of cable to his amp he'd occasionally pick up a radio station. Too funny at the time, cheers Ben from meadvale Surrey.
@@fuglongThe gloves although insulating to low frequency AC and DC are very lossy at high frequencies. Nevermind that the voltage at the feedpoint of an commercial AM antenna can be several tens of thousands of volts. A bad RF burn goes right through the outer layers of your skin and to deeper tissue. It takes a very long time to heal.
so does that inherently mean that was an AM radio tower: Or does grass exhibit nonlinear qualities that let it tune to the overwhelming energy present?
