How dangerous are radio towers? (ft. Plasma Channel)

What do you get when you touch a pickle to 7 kW of AM RF? Science!

Note: DO NOT mess with AM towers. Or, really, any towers which you're not qualified to work on. RF burns hurt—and they don't really heal.

Check out all our experiments at the 12 kW AM radio transmitting site just outside St. Louis, MO, with special guest Jay from ‪@PlasmaChannel‬!

Related videos:

- Plasma Channel's video:    • Creating Plasma Shockwaves Using A Wi...  
- Original hot dog experiment:    • We made a hot dog talk... with RF  
- Phasor video - 8 tower AM array:    • This 100-year-old tech splits my voic...  

And huge thanks to Covenant Network for allowing us to do our testing on their equipment, and to Adam Wright, who coordinated with us for the bratwurst experiments :)

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Contents:

00:00 - Plasma and high-power AM radio
00:57 - Hot Dog
02:02 - Pickle
02:48 - How does AM radio work?
04:04 - Pickle, Analyzed and Tasted
05:40 - Bratwurst
06:05 - Vegan Hot Dog
06:47 - Corn Dog
08:14 - A.M. Breakfast Sausage
08:39 - Hot Dog Warmer
09:50 - Did we break the transmitter?
11:52 - How is the signal affected?