[GreenKeys] ELF in Canada...

[Jeffrey Angus]

On 7/26/17 10:07 AM, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
> On 7/26/17 9:49 AM, Nick England wrote:
>> During daylight a scope probe just sitting on the bench shows several 
>> volts of
>> talk radio RF. 
> Back in Torrance, I could walk out in the drive way with an RF field 
> strength meter
> made out of a 100 uA meter, 2.5 mH choke, 0.01 uF disc capacitor and a 
> 1N34
> diode and a 19" whip antenna and get a 1/2 scale reading.
Back in the '90s, it was all the rage to claim that high tension AC 
power distribution
towers caused leukemia. I actually had a friend, a cardiologist, that 
insisted on
unplugging the air pump for his kids fish tank at night because of 
"radiated energy"
concerns.

I went to North High school in Torrance.
KNX was just under a mile away.
about 1000' North of the campus was the La Fresa Bridge Substation for 
So Cal
Edison, and the transmission lines ran parallel to the school a block to 
the East.
With the main source feeders running West from the station.

Historical triva:
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118749/>
The film Boogy Nights, the "hero" lived in Torrance. There's a shot of a 
house,
it was in the tract to the East of North High and you can see the 
transmission
lines behind it.



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Jeff-1.0
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