[AT] Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard

[Guy Fay]

I grew up next to some big highn power lines. You could walk under the lines 
with one of the flourescent flashlights and yes, they'd begin to glow.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard


>I worked with a Bell Labs employee who was stationed for a while at the
> company's installation on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. There
> was a huge radar array that was used for detecting test missiles fired
> at them by the US Navy. In front of the array was the island's little
> golf course, and when the radar was being fired up for a test, they
> would blow a siren in advance and everyone would leave the course
> immediately. How much danger there was, nobody knew, but they weren't
> taking any chances!
>
> Mike
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> There is an "urban legend" around these parts about a guy who lived right
>> up against the fence of a Navy Base in the Norfolk, Va. Beach area of VA.
>> He was supposedly a radar expert that worked for the base.  He built some
>> sort of antenna/concentrator that he used to gather RF from the radar at 
>> the
>> base and was powering his house with it until the base found out and made
>> him stop.
>>
>> I have no idea if that is possible or true.  It was told to me by a guy 
>> who
>> worked there at the same time.  He was also some sort of radar tech and 
>> he
>> seemed to believe it.
>>
>> Charlie
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