In the 1920's a radio station in Schenectady, NY built a powerful
transmitter. In those days before FCC regulations, not knowing just how
big to make a transmitter in order for the signal to be received some
distance away, the station set up to broadcast at 500,000 watts. It
requires about one watt to be received four blocks away. This station
broadcast at such tremendous power that they could be heard around the
world. People in New York didn't even need radios. They could sometimes
hear voices in their furnaces and coming off chain-link fences. Light
bulbs lit up in people's houses even if they were switched off. - from
www.odd-info.com

- Jeff
www.unusualcoach.com