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BossJock  <bossjock@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
>> 
>> I've been told there was a radio station that wanted to open in LA, but
>> couldn't get the licensing.  They opened in a neighboring county and were
>> planning on beaming their signal to LA.  Guy in a house in the path rigs up
>> his attic with loops of wire, drives whole house, etc., etc.
>> 
>> Beginning to sound like an urban legend.  Anybody have facts?
>
>FACT:  This is nonsense!  Loops in the attic will not do anything but act as
>a super antenna, which he probably didn't need.  Got any documentation?

No Sh*t!  A "Super Antenna".  Yup...  Kind of like a transformer?  Kind
of like hooking a neon bulb between your antenna and the ground during a
lightning storm?  Kind of like putting a flourescent light in a microwave
oven?  Kind of like powering a cat's whisker radio set with any external
power source?  Yep... strictly assinine to think one can get power from
a loop in the attic.

>Often radio stations in outlying areas try to play to the big city market.
>I once worked for a super-powerful AM radio station outside of San Francisco,
>beaming it's 250,000 watts effective radiated power at The City.  The 
>transmitter was near Valley Home, CA.  

Charlie...  That you?

>Residents of Valley Home could hear
>the station in their telephones, musical instruments, bathroom plumbing,
>and just about anything else capable of resonating to frequencies in the
>audio range.  It was an engineering nightmare!!  Frequently  enough
>audio power can be de-modulated from radio signals to produce an audible
>sound without electronic amplification.  

You contradict yourself...  now you say it *is* possible to get power
out of the air...

>But enough to drive an entire house??

Here, I do agree with you...  it is insane to think that one can
power an entire house from a radio station's signal... surely the
station engineers would notice the drastic change in their coverage
contour as you turned on the dishwasher.

>It's gotta be urban legend.

Depends what *it* is.  I never heard this associated with a radio
station.  I have (in HS Physics class) heard it associated with
someone whose house was under the right of way for some high tension
power lines, and the coils received the electricity via induction.

Still, there seems to be a bit of doubt in my mind, having to do with
the distance between phases, and might the field be nulled out by the
closer proximity to the other phase than the distance to the coil in
the attic.  [I'll let the sci.energy folks battle this theory]