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>Does that mean its bad to store charging cables or antennas in the faraday cage...since they can be conduits or amplifiers like a lighting rod.
It is somewhat complicated. It shouldn't be an issue if the faraday cage is working as intended as no energy can enter it. It would imply that the faraday cage is compromised and allows energy to go right through. Piercing conduit into a faraday cage for instance can cause this. It is possible for antennas to reradiate energy and dependent on the frequency for different lengths of cables to act like an antenna and also reradiate energy. Long extensions cords just love to do this, and it can happen because the energy traveled across the air to hit the cable or even that the energy found its way to enter the electrical lines and is coming directly out from the extension cord.
>Can cables and antennas get fried by emp?
Why need a faraday cage at all if it weren't for the fact that electronics can be fried from too much energy? Antennas can have amplifiers that are very susceptible to too much energy and are usually the weakest link in all electronics. Coax/cables can only take so much energy. When too much energy is forcing its way through, more and more of the energy is converted into heat. At that point, your limit is whatever the dialectric, typically the weakest link, or metal can handle before burning up.