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

[Gene Waugh]

Hey, even an over-powered CB radio can light up a fluorescent tube a little.

Gene

Larry Goss wrote:
> RF can do funny things.  A colleague in Oklahoma used to tell me of their transmission building in Alaska having florescent tubes lying on the girders -- just the tubes.  They lit up without being connected to any power source.
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> When my uncle ran the "House of Magic" programs for GE back in the late 40's - early 50's, he generated enough radiation on stage that he could hold up a florescent tube and have just part of it light up by blocking the radiation with his hand and arm.  Fun stuff.
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> Larry
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> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:57
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