“You must be new to electricity. “
Backatcha. Seriously, you want to equate picking up weak AM signals with destructive voltage spikes? Seriously?
Seriously, what I want to do is to make folks understand that 20 watts at the right frequency, aimed at the right target can make a bunch of highly structured silicon, copper and gold turn into a highly unstructured lump of minerals.
EMP isn't a problem with some stuff. It is with others.
And none of the stuff works if the power is off because the 1000 mile long inductors (we call them power lines) get a big pulse and trash the transformers.
That's gonna hurt, no matter who you are.
But yes, I can take 20 watts and ruin your monitor. At the right frequency, and for the right pulse duration.
/johnny