It’s definitely a legend. The amount of usable power you can extract from a radio signal is minuscule even fairly close to a transmitter. The incident radiation

It’s definitely a legend. The amount of usable power you can extract from a radio signal is minuscule even fairly close to a transmitter. The incident radiation on his property was definitely nowhere even near watts let alone hundreds of watts. Nor would an induction coil or any sort work with respect to power transfer unless it was magnetic coupling. People seem to think of radio waves as a magical power transfer medium but it’s terrible for that. It’s only really useful for information and no magic stories or hype will be changing that.