I'd have to check

As for radio waves and 5G. The reason there is more towers is because those frequencies (EHF and UHF) suffer more attenuation. They bleed off energy faster. So unless you put more power behind the signal, you have to have more antennas in closer proximity.

I should mention I have relative living near multiple nuclear power plants and am not particularly concerned

Nuclear power and RF are completely different.

I know

I suppose alot of other people don't know.

It's just that it's even in the background radiation and our bodies are able to cope with it

They're a bit old so maybe it's not a good idea in the long run though

That's mostly due to our skin.

Higher frequencies are more likely to penetrate than reflect but once again they bleed energy.

At low power they'll simply disperse.

Not only the penetration but also because they're actually able to break up chemical bonds

Which is bad if it happens to DNA

Yes the ionizing levels, they're up there though. Once you get up high enough that penetrating quality starts to overcome the attenuation.

https://youtu.be/lMuJKsUjD_o

That looks like short circuiting more like

So it's an analog tower, normally the waves would travel harmlessly through the airwaves until they came upon a conductive antenna. From there they would reach a crystal or magnet and cause vibrations which would generate sound.

But here in this video when the stick touches it, there is enough power to excite the molecules in the stick which causes molecular vibration. That vibration causes the generation of friction (heat) and the movement of the surrounding air molecules which is the sound we are hearing.

Hence why we can hear the radio station through the stick

I think it looks pretty fake

I'm pretty sure they just had a radio or whatever somewhere else and turned it on when touching

It actually makes compete sense.

We mostly use digital signals now, frequency modulation is an example. Digital signals requires a computer to translate the data into something understandable.

But old analogue signals for music were the same modulations as actual sound waves. It just needed a median to convert it from EM waves to a physical wave.

With enough power it could be accomplished without the electric contact from the stick to the tower.

That DR Devra Davis video kinda puts a good explanation of the danger of non ionizing rf radiation.

It does cause DNA damage, it does lower sperm counts etc.

5G towers will operate at a higher frequency than what we usually use for radars and satellite communications. That being said, I don't know if it will cause any new issues. These towers will operate at lower power than a radar and satellite antenna. We're exposed to so much EMI now, heck your wifi router is either 2.4 GHz or 5GHz. I think the real danger is just the proximity to cellphones. Probably more so than the tower.

http://www.wavelengthemts.com/

I wonder how much power is behind this and what frequency it operates at.

It seems like a horrible idea.

@LimaGolf Frequency Modulation can be either analogue or digital.

Even for analogue, you still need circuit boards to extract the information wave before you can amplify it.

@MicMac I don't think we are talking about the same thing.

TBF I've yet to meet anyone who can explain this in an understandable way to me.

Wave theory is pretty heavy

Yes. It is.

But AM can be digital

What I'm talking about is none digital.

The relation to that and AM I am fuzzy on.

I don't know if I understand what you're saying?

AM and FM are different ways of modulating a wave. But a wave can either carry digital information or analogue information. A digital signal converts everything to binary, while an analogue signal is as is. An example is an analogue voice transmission would have the same modulation as the actual sinewave or the wave properties that the sound has, it is just an electronic wave instead of an actual physical wave.

Or so my understanding goes.