200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”

  • debounced@kbin.run
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    9 months ago

    Haven’t looked up the station’s license to see how much power they could have been pushing, but if I were the “authorities”, I’d definely be checking local hospitals for records of anyone coming in with mild to severe [RF] burns. With [low frequency] AM stations, the tower itself is basically the other half of the antenna electrically… probably lit them up like a Christmas tree.

    • piecat@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      With am… Either you’re cooked dead or not. 20-50kW of power…

      They probably turned off the transmitter. Because that’s gone too.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      HIPAA does have some exceptions to allow giving relevant information for crimes that occurred on their premises, but I’m not sure there’s anything that could be applicable here.