On: What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radi...

[hermitcrab]

I had no idea that radio towers used that sort of ampage.

[timr → hermitcrab]

I might be misremembering the tower (i.e. I might be remembering the amperage for a 50kW tower), but they definitely do.

Amperage on a 6kW tower will still be more than enough to kill you.

[geerlingguy → timr]

16A on this full array, as measured by the RF ammeter feeding the phasor in the transmitter building.

[pclmulqdq → timr]

50 kW is a respectable AM station, while 6 kW is pretty short range.