First off, this question is just the inverse of this question. So, apologizes to MichaelKjorling, I'm going to crib his answer to get some results.
Assumptions
- In order to be noticeable at 500 light years, we need to be able to detect us at that distance.
What is the attenuation over 500 light years?
Free space path loss in decibels (dB) is given by
$$20\log_{10}\frac{4\pi d}{\lambda}$$ where $d$ is the distance between antenna and $\lambda$ is the wavelength of the frequency in question.
In the US, the highest energy general transmission (as far as I can tell) are UHF stations in the 512-608 MHz range. This may be an important thing to revisit; emission into space is determined heavily by directional broadcasting characteristics. But we'll just use this assumption for now and say that the wavelength is 0.5 meters. Meanwhile, 500 light years is $4.7\times10^{18}$ meters.
Plugging into the equation above, free space path loss is 401 decibels. That is a lot! This means power is $10^{40}$ lower at the receiver than at the emitter.
What is the most sensitive receiver that we have?
First, since radio transmission terminology is not generally well known, a brief discussion. In order to receive a signal, you need to be able to pick it out of background noise. That background noise includes both background noises from deep space, and interference from local signals. For example, if our UHF transmissions at 550 MHz happen to line up with the most common radio frequency on a distant planet looking for us, in-atmosphere recievers are going to have a tough time finding us.
The unit of measure for the signal here is dBm, or decibel-milliwatts. If $P$ is the power of a signal in milliwatts, then the signal strength is
$$10\log_{10}(P).$$ Thus, a 1 W signal is 1000 mW or 30 dBm. The gain of an antenna is measured in terms of dBi. This measure uses the same log scale that the signal strength does, so we can simply add the measures to together to calculate total signal strength.
The rating of a receiver is the smallest signal that it can pull out of the noise background. Following MichaelKjorling's answer, assume that an alien civilization specifically searching for us can detect the signal at -200 dBm. In addition, assume a 80 dBi antenna gain from a dish like Arecibo.
How much noise do we have to put out?
Free space path loss is -400 dB; antenna gain at a foreign civilization is 80 dB and the signal detection threshold is -200 dB. Therefore, signal emission strength must be 120 dBm at the source to make it detectable. This is equivalent to $10^{12}$ mW or 1 GW of emission power.
Conclusions
The Earth is almost certainly not gong to reach this power level. WBCT is the most powerful FM radio station in the US, with effective radiated power of 320kW, or about 85 dB. But this dish is not pointed into space, and so its emissions are further attenuated by the atmosphere before reaching into deep space. There is really no reason to increase the power of such a dish, becase it already has plenty of power to reach the horizon. Any direct signal's line of sight is limited by the horizon; once past the horizon the signal no longer reaches the surface and coverage moves up into the atmosphere, where it isn't really useful.
Furthermore, if you start increasing the emission power of lots of different radio communications methods, then they will start interfering with each other. A 120 dB signal emerging from the earth's atmosphere will bounce of the moon and back to Earth at a much higher power than it will reach 500 light years away.
So, all in all, the Earth is unlikely to ever emit enough noise to reach a planet 500 ly away. Now, a directed signal is another story...