{"id":3627,"date":"2017-04-16T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/micro-shocks-and-qrp-power-from-nearby-high-voltage-lines-video\/"},"modified":"2017-04-16T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:56:00","slug":"micro-shocks-and-qrp-power-from-nearby-high-voltage-lines-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/micro-shocks-and-qrp-power-from-nearby-high-voltage-lines-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Shocks (and QRP Power?) from Nearby High Voltage Lines (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyfXvFicp8M?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I spotted this on Hack-A-Day. It caught my attention because many time, while riding my bike along the Washington and Old Dominion bike path, I have felt electrical shocks from the handlebars. <\/b><br \/> <b>Now, before you all conclude that OM Bill is losing it and start suggesting that I wear an aluminum foil hat, realize that the bike path is directly under some seriously high voltage power lines. And that esteemed UK newspaper &#8220;The Daily Mail&#8221; <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2655190\/Cyclist-told-grab-metal-bike-time-rides-overhead-power-line-gives-ELECTRIC-SHOCK.html\"><b>confirms that these shocks are, as the kids say, a thing. <\/b><\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2655190\/Cyclist-told-grab-metal-bike-time-rides-overhead-power-line-gives-ELECTRIC-SHOCK.html\"><b>http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2655190\/Cyclist-told-grab-metal-bike-time-rides-overhead-power-line-gives-ELECTRIC-SHOCK.html<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b>So think these Russian dudes are onto something. How long will it be before the QRP community starts exploiting this power source? (Please be careful about where you put the antenna!) <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this on Hack-A-Day. It caught my attention because many time, while riding my bike along the Washington and Old Dominion bike path, I have felt electrical shocks from the handlebars. Now, before you all conclude that OM Bill is losing it and start suggesting that I wear an aluminum foil hat, realize that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/micro-shocks-and-qrp-power-from-nearby-high-voltage-lines-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micro-Shocks (and QRP Power?) from Nearby High Voltage Lines (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,87,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle","category-qrp","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}