Originally Posted by acroy
Actually now that my memory is stirred, I think the farmer's place was near a super-powerful AM transmitter. Can the EE's weigh in and tell us whether the lights would light up in these conditions?
I'll email my grandad & see if he recalls any more details. He was involved in AM radio transmitter design for a while and had a few oddball stories like this.
If your close enough to a powerful enough transmitter, an antenna may produce enough wattage (volts*amps) to run some small lighting (LED's?) but you won't light up a house this way. This is how the old crystal diode radios work without an external power source. The radio waves actually generate a small current in the coiled antenna.
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