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From: seeger@poe.ufnet.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III)
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Subject: Re: wireless electricity
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Date: 7 May 89 22:52:11 GMT
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In article <9504@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
|I was wondering....
|	Since we do have stations putting out energy, and we can power
|cicuits off them (e.g. crystal radio sets) how much free power could a
|person pull out of the air? Is it a fuction of antenna size?

Yeah, it would be, and of the signal strength.  A recently retired prof
of mine used to do this back in the 40s and 50s -- used the transmitted
power from one station to power a radio that he had tuned to a competitor!

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