phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) (04/10/91)
wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes: >There was a 60 Minutes segment the night of Sunday, 7 April, that dealt >with the problems caused to several dairy farmers by a power-company- >caused condition called "stray voltage". Unfortunately, this being mass- >market TV, there was absolutely no coherent technical explanation of >what they were talking about. They used the "stray voltage" term roughly >equivalently to saying "evil vapors" or some other archaic phrase to >describe the cause of sickness. Does anyone on the net know the details >of what this is all about, and can you post an explanation? >(To those who ask "why is this on the hams list?", I say: a) because >I know of no other mailing list devoted to electrical/electronic >topics, and b) because whatever these ill effects might be, the >mechanism described sounded a lot like what happens in a poorly-grounded >ham shack, with RF appearing in unwanted places causing undesired >effects; admittedly, they only were speaking of 60Hz and not RF in the >program, but the situation appears to be parallel.) The places could be sci.bio, sci.electronics, sci.physics, and maybe others like talk.environment. Hams DO read those groups as well. I'll let those in the other groups help narrow down where this topic should be discussed. -- /***************************************************************************\ / Phil Howard -- KA9WGN -- phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu \ \ Lietuva laisva -- Brivu Latviju -- Eesti vabaks / \***************************************************************************/