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200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." (arstechnica.com)

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 4 points 8 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 3 points 8 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.