high power arc

This is a video starting with two of the 100,000 watt transmitters of WWCR
that are housed in one building. You see the transmitters as the camera pans
shows the power amplifiers.

The camera then leaves the building to inside a small pickup truck going
down to what looks like an antenna switch box of some kind.

As the pickup approaches the box is clearly on fire due to a high power arc.

What is interesting instead of turning the transmitter off up on the hill
when the arc was noticed they grab a video camera and let it continue arcing
and burning.

These guys are real smart.

They are having a big time laughing in the pickup truck amused by this
dangerous arc.

Strange they are not a bit concerned about what damage could be taking place
they are having a good time.

The cost of replacing the final tube or the balun on this transmitter is
staggering.

What could they be thinking?

This video was placed on You Tube by Jason Cooper, jaycooper82 7/20/2007
Joined: December 15, 2006

Name: Jason
Age: 24

City: Nashville
Hometown: Nashville
Country: United States
Occupation: Engineer, Business Administration

Category:

Science & Technology

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• jaycooper82
• wwcr

[DragonFlyback256]

@RyuDarragh

Radio wavelength "vision" would be very blurry and full of interference patterns i guess.

[picobyte]

That arc looks nice,and as long as it burns at least the transmitter can dump its power somewhere.

[gppms]

The protection of the VSWR of the transmiters didn't work?

[envisionelec]

echo...echo....echo....

[m0eme]

Hope you got a nice tan.

[BenHutchinson1]

Singing arc, on a HUGE scale. And also I'm just as worried (due to the arc) that you would be fried by the UV rays just as much as by the radio waves. And where were the welding gogles? NOWHERE! This guy was a COMPLETE MORON!

[DragonFlyback256]

Ladies & Gentlemen, High Power Plasma Arc Speaker. ;D

[DrMR2000]

All this having been said, if you are standing in frontof it, you will be cook and not even know it right away!!

[DrMR2000]

What is dangerous is specifically ionizing radiation which can come in the form of high-energy particle radiation. Ionizing electromagnetic radiation starts with ultraviolet on up through x-rays and gamma rays. Below these frequency are the visible spectrum, then infrared and then below that microwaves and then lower frequency radio bands such as UHF,VHF, HF (shortwave & AM commercial broadcasts) down to LF and VLF and ULF which covers the 60Hz e-m noise from your AC power lines and such.

[RyuDarragh]

You're right. I wasn't comparing them to each other that way as microwave frequencies can propagate very differently. That's what I was saying by mentioning that flesh is pretty much transparent at those frequencies (less than ~30MHz). At each frequency from DC to Cosmic Ray, different coupling effects, impedances and so forth take over as you go up in frequency. Always wondered what our world would look like if we had eyes that could see in radio wavelengths without being 10s of meters accross.