This will wake you up
Super 12vman!
Got to get some of those for serious experimentation.
How amazing.
Wait for the day when you get the radio through your feet when walking down the street.
Johny C your view of the future has me thinking....
We could have Part 15 streets.
On my block I send all-talk by sidewalk carrier.
Up the way some guy is doing sidewalk classical.
Perhaps more pedestrians would walk about.
Good work, there in New Zealand!
"Wait for the day when you get the radio through your feet when walking down the street."
In 1961 I visited the VOA high-power, shortwave transmit site near Delano, CA. I was impressed by the signs in the visitor's parking lot advising drivers to park their cars with a bumper in physical contact with a grounded, horizontal strip installed at bumper height around the edges of the parking lot.
The reason for this was to reduce/eliminate the r-f burns a visitor might suffer when having only one of their feet on the ground when exiting their vehicle, and other parts of their body still in contact with the conductors in that vehicle (which normally are isolated from the earth by the tires of the vehicle).
Imagine the field strengths needed to produce such a hazard some hundreds/thousands of feet away from radiating antennas.
Nowadays that would not be such good advice, as the bumpers on many modern vehicles are not very conductive to the metallic components of those vehicles.
Very interesting experience, Rich, and probably why most transmitter sites are way out somewhere.
But some legacy (older) transmitter installations are still right in the midst of housing, apartments, buildings....
Radio from your teeth.