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Default I see the BBC reporters don't understand RFID tags.

On 21/08/2019 16:58, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:16:34 UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

Someone really should tell them that the normal RFID tags in use are not
powered by radio waves


Except they *are* they get parasitic power from the device that is
scanning them ...


I thought it was a magnetic coupling


Correct, a RF field has both electric and magnetic components.