🚀 go-pugleaf

A few years ago, as an October 31st prank (what was that day called again?)
someone decided it would be fun to climb up a local radio station's tower
and steal the red beacon lamp from the top. This was an AM transmitter, so
the entire tower was energized. There was a large insulator that the tower
sat on...
Anyways, the next day, the announcer said that the joke was on the 
prankster, because with the amount of RF energy that he would have
absorbed, he would probably not have to worry about having children for
the rest of his life... I'm not sure if that RF zap would do that kind 
of damage (maybe folklore??) but I wouldn't take the chance...

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When I was 14 or 15, I was working on building a tesla coil, using
six #807 beam power tubes as the final power stage. I never did finish it,
I didn't have the money to do it. Plus, I would suspect that tube life 
would have been a bit short, and I didn't have the power transformer
to feed the beast. Maybe I'll get it going later this summer... 

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Dale Ulan    ulan@ee.ualberta.ca
Computer Engineering Undergrad  (and former 'farm kid').