I thought electrocution = death or severe injury due to electric shock.

Yea those towers aren't as abandoned as you thought. 🤣

Even unused insulated towers can pack quite a shock punch. It's due to the static electric charge buildup on the tower that results from wind blowing through the tower. Discharge arcs of one foot or more are not unheard of.

@ultragear207

2 ай бұрын

how would this guy have avoided that? you use like a multimeter to check if its hot, then how would you dissapate the charge? aspiring electrical engineer and a physics student so wondering a potential solution

@Kansika

2 ай бұрын

@@ultragear207 Maybe your next course will tell you about grounding. Isn't that one of the very fundamentals of harnessing the power of electrons safely to human use? The tower is insulated from the ground potential as often the whole tower acts as an antenna. Grounding it when used as a transmitter would just direct the power straight to the soil. The atmosphere alone on a clear day has a 100 volts per meter potential difference, no friction needed. A charge build up is to be expected in an ungrounded tower. Not much of a conductor would be needed to direct the potential to some metal object located at a sufficient depth in the ground. A jump start cable attached to a steel rod pushed deep in to the soil or better yet, an already established grounding electrode near by would do.

@Tore_Lund

Ай бұрын

@@ultragear207 With a grounding strap, possibly through a bleed resistor so you don't get arching when you attach it to the tower. Then it will be safe to climb, but check the weather report first. As Kasinka says, there will likely be a grounding point at the bottom of the porcelain insulators under each leg. would not want grass or animals die from just being on the ground next to the antenna.

@Xfacter

Ай бұрын

Why aren't we harnessing this power?

@Tore_Lund

Ай бұрын

@@Xfacter You can, with a spark gap and an inductor coil to drive a transformer, you can make low voltage and higher current to charge a phone or similar small devices.

Abandoned all right, until nightfall that day. The way I understand that transmitter site, there are three local radio station transmitters feeding their signals into the antenna systems there. The two shorter towers, including the one this idiot went near, only operate at night with a directional pattern. One of the transmitters is 50 kilowatts. During the day, the transmitters, including the 50 kilowatt one, all feed the tall tower at that site. If he touched that one instead............ While the old tuning huts are seemingly abandoned, the new tuning equipment is outdoors in those stainless steel enclosures you see in the video. The FCC should require signs on the property fences that read: "Attention KZreadrs: this transmitter site is not abandoned. You MUST write the names of your next of kin at the bottom of this sign before tresspassing."

@Kinann

16 күн бұрын

He literally walked over the sign. I guess it didn't apply to youtubers.

@mattmcrae1458

15 күн бұрын

1:41 I like the American flag on your bike. Stay safe young adventurer.

@FurryWrecker911

15 күн бұрын

@@Kinann Continental is talking about shock hazard. The sign he walked over was RF hazard. When a person partakes in urbex they assume the risks that come with it. Noticing things like freshly installed signs, things that are still plugged in, the humming of power, vibrations in the surroundings, and fresh grass that isn't entirely overgrown are things one needs to look out for. This was one of Sumaire's earlier exploration videos. He made it out with a beginner's warning that not everything you see is how it really is. The Proper People's channel is a good example for what years of experience doing urbex looks like.

Most people don't understand also that the tower will receive other signals around it. Even dead towers won't be dead. They can conduct a neighboring towers energy through the airwaves

@circleinforthecube5170

15 күн бұрын

there was this footage of russian guys listening to a dead tower with a blade of grass

@VRchitecture

7 күн бұрын

⁠@@circleinforthecube5170 Yep, kzread.info/dash/bejne/lG2JsZutnpezoKw.html

The tower can pick up other nearby stations, or static from wind,make sure NEVER to touch the mast and ground at the same time. Don't mess around with rf, it is CRAZY dangerous.

You didn't want to touch the other 2 towers?

You really are lucky to be alive. Even with a spectacularly badly maintained site like that, the transmitter can still be on. You're lucky it's not running the full 50kW advertised power, or my friend you'd be a piece of fried bacon.

@dopiaza2006

Ай бұрын

This was not power from a transmitter, or he's not be alive. It was induced power because the towers are insulated from ground.

I'm the former owner of two AM radio stations. Neither of my stations had the amount of power this station is licensed for. You were a fool to ignore that "No Trespassing" sign and walk in the fence where the tower stood. You could have literally been killed under the right conditions. No, it wasn't your tennis shoes that saved you, either! AM towers have ridiculous amounts of power running through them. Even at lower power, you can still get a jolt by touching a "hot" tower. The owners of that station aren't doing themselves any favors either. They are required by federal law to maintain safe, locked fences around their towers. What I saw could subject them to a fine if inspected. To others who want to explore, leave broadcast facilities alone. They're not as abandoned as you perceive them to be, and you are most likely trespassing!

@oakwood6922

16 сағат бұрын

I've worked on 25W AM TX kit, and that still gives you a nasty shock/RF burn. If folk want to play with RF then expect to never tell the tale(!!!), especially at 50,000W and especially with so much energy in the near field! @Sumairev is lucky not to have been fried - Take a look at this... kzread.info/dash/bejne/eZt42rp9hpfFmMY.html ...These guys know what they are doing, and demostrate exactly what can happen!

When you heard the gate opening that was just another KZreadr sneaking in to make a video

@slserenader

22 күн бұрын

haha i didnt expect to see jawtooth in this comment section, love your videos!

@JawTooth

22 күн бұрын

@@slserenader Thanks! lol

Dude…..glass insulators at the bottom of each leg are kind of a MAJOR clue that you missed?? Geezzzzz…….

@scotttodd3506

Ай бұрын

Most kids know nothing about AM transmission facilities anymore.

Even if it's not transmitting... it sure is receiving 😂 Aerials work both ways!

@oakwood6922

17 сағат бұрын

Indeed! (Near field energy passing down that tower from the RF coming off the active tower nearby)

AM towers are crazy, if it was performing at its full 50 kilowatts, that would have been much worse. Glad you're alive!

Stupid is as stupid does.

@kelmo3355

15 күн бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen...........Meet the prince of stupid.

That whole site is a major FCC violation, particularly with the tower fences.

Those are fairly well preserved very old towers. That style dates to the 1930s. They might even be bald Knocks. Before they went to the inverted stack design. Looks like the old antenna tuning house, made a brick is still there but they have new antenna tuning boxes, out of aluminum or stainless steel. I remember the words of my former Chief engineer, after I touched the shower for the first time I got bit. He said hurt didn't it, taught you not to touch a second time. Assume everything is hot unless you personally ground it. And then assume that it still be hot...

@craigroberts6439

15 күн бұрын

It’s Blaw-Knox…not bald knocks. They were a very famous tower builder long ago.

@circleinforthecube5170

15 күн бұрын

i like that even our infrastructure architecture noticeably changes overtime, this world is beautiful, they should start preserving iconic old towers

This could have been SUCH an interesting video, but instead, you turned it into a complete waste of bandwidth

A static shock and being "electrocuted" are very different things. One of them you don't walk away from.

Those towers might still be radiating a signal if you got shocked climbing on it. So they might not be abandoned after all.

WPTF 680kz is owned by Don Curtis aka Curtis Media Group. Glad to see he's keeping up this historic property. 😢 Typical

The signs were there for a reason imagine that.😆

Some of these are the radiator. Not a structure to hold antennas but the entire structure is live. If you notice the bottom legs. At the bottom there are four isolators that keep them from ground. I'm pretty sure what you felt was static discharge since its not grounded.

What is the name of the soundtrack in the first part of the video? It sounds so familiar but I can't remember where I heard it?

Not abandoned at all….50KW WPTF AM 680 is still very much on the air.

whatt song did you use in the intro?

You need to JUMP onto the tower. You are creating a circuit with one of your knees/legs contacting earth ground

Electrocution results in death….this is just a shock.

Almost another successful winner of a Darwin Award. Assisted in this case by not learning to read.

Please. What is the name of the sound track being played at the end? Thank you

@24mkim1

26 күн бұрын

lonely sine

In this video today we learn that a lot of abandoned facilities rent out their towers to active stations and that some stations use entirely different antenna sites to transmit daytime and night time signals! We also learn if there's shiny metal boxes, those are NEW! For A Reason! C'Mon man, show us your burnt hand! PS< the lawns are mowed...for a reason.

Alright so my friends and I went to an abandoned air force base in CA that had an old hospital. It was tagged and broke to shit and had security. We went in and some sensors went off and I couldn’t find my way to an exit considering it was pitch black and we didn’t all have flip phones back then. I was caught by security. He said “Look, I don’t see you guys caused anymore damage but with the homeless and the drug addicts I don’t need anymore stress and I need this job. Look, I know it’s fun and you are kids but it’s not haunted, everyone who says things have happened have lied or have just seen homeless people sleeping in some of the rooms. Just tell your friends not to come back please.” And he drove me to the gate and that was the only time I ever entered private property knowingly. I only had to be told once.

If you look at the actual equipment, there's not much evidence these towers are abandoned. The equipment boxes for the first tower are literally shiny. Tower climbing is dangerous enough as is, your lack knowledge makes it borderline suicidal.

Another candidate for the KZread Darwin Award, walks right over RF radiation sign

I'm trying to figure out which behavior demonstrates more intelligence - 1) Messing around with high energy RF installations or 2) Filming yourself committing a criminal act

Read the signs

AM is received through antennas and you can be miles away and get shocked just by a long wire

@CraigLumpyLemke

5 күн бұрын

Your comment makes absolutely no sense.

@oakwood6922

16 сағат бұрын

@@CraigLumpyLemke It makes every sense if you understand RF (i.e. with a 50,000 Watt transmission, the field strength can still be high enough to give you a shock/nip some distance away. In fact this KZreadr ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6WgzMOEmq7QlJc.html ) who manages to light up LEDs from just the RF field some distance away from the transmitting antenna/tower/mast.....)

Current record show the station license for one kilowatt, not 50,000. Seems like a drastic power increase I don't know what station would honestly want that

@obsoleteprofessor2034

3 ай бұрын

Where did you look up that data. I always wondered who owned xyz towers that blinked in the night.

AM antenna are dangerous

6:30 STL antenna on the ground

This video really captured the feeling of exploring something alone on a summer day 😄 good music choice

name of the first song? or at least genre

@24mkim1

26 күн бұрын

lonely sine

@CraigLumpyLemke

5 күн бұрын

The name of the first song was "Adam, Where's My Fig Leaf"

@BlueP639

5 күн бұрын

@@CraigLumpyLemke idk, found nothing

0:03 I have that exact same sign.

Bro don‘t Write you Climb when you don‘t

Whata with the electricity sound effect

you were lucky you weren't seriously injured or killed even when not energised by a transmitter an insulated tower of that size can still be at high voltage from other nearby live towers inducing current or just plain old static and that can be many thousands of volts lesson learned i hope. never touch a tower that's sitting on insulators like the ones there! otherwise nice footage be safe.

Well if you were electrocuted you wouldn't be here electrocution always means the result was death, otherwise you were just shocked.

@CraigLumpyLemke

5 күн бұрын

I'm not sure where you went to med school. But you can certainly be electrocuted without suffering death.

@3rdTrickGang

5 күн бұрын

@@CraigLumpyLemke shit that's what the Dr told me when I got zapped, but it's cool you thought I was a Dr but just a sparky

Ouch

I wonder is these towers are dead not into business or something!!!

When he touched it he made a connection between the earth and the tower, thus electricity found a path through him to ground. If he had thick rubber gloves or something then this wouldn't have happened is my guess. And maybe the grass or soil was wet. But with electricity you shouldn't guess 😢

Why the company that abandoned the towers rather than scrapping them for their metal is also beyond me. They are still responsible to maintain the safety fencing, tower painting and lighting. It usually costs nothing to have them scrapped and they must pay property tax on them as long as they stand. (actually even if they are on the ground) I have not heard of such fools around where I live. Ron W4BIN

@CraigLumpyLemke

5 күн бұрын

You'd pay property tax whether or not the antennas were in place.

Nicely shot. I also loved the sound track.

bellissimi gli induttori

4:51 🤣 A brick shit house...

Two lies in the video title. First you did not climb the tower. Second you are still alive so you were not electrocuted. Clickbait.

@rabbit188

6 күн бұрын

I agree. Electrocuted means dead, as in executed. Otherwise it was an electric shock. Lots of people use the term wrong.

@CraigLumpyLemke

5 күн бұрын

@@rabbit188 Yes, Ms Rabbit. Lots of people "use the term wrong" [sic].

@oakwood6922

16 сағат бұрын

@@rabbit188 Definition of electrocute is 'to injure or kill (someone) by electric shock'.... This guy was definitely electrocuted!

FAAFO

you would be d ead if this was a real video. The amount of wattage pulsing through that connection would wave killled you.

@dopiaza2006

Ай бұрын

it's a dead tower just pikcing up induced power. tower should be grounded for safety.

Click bait.. did not climb tower but did get a small shock overwise you'd be dead... Stop with the BS