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Re: Dreaming........



For Avalon, we may go with a DC coil, Electrum is DC I believe, though the 
13M is AC. And also, the 13M used an AM radio station transmitting site as 
it's test facility :)
This can be done :)


>Original Poster: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz>
>
>Worth noting:
>
> > Original Poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> >
> >
> > Comments interspersed....
> >
> >
> > >Original Poster: Megavolt121-at-aol-dot-com
> > >
> > >Chris,
> > >     Remember, Tesla coils are not only dangerous, but they disrupt 
>radio
> > >frequencies!!! If you ran a big coil like you want to(after you
> > >get through funding probs and that you get permits if required) you 
>will
> > >then
> > >be spending millions on lawyer fees. don't even go into that direction.
> >
> > ALright, not I've heard "It can't be done!" I have to try this now :)
> >
> > Alright, with proper tuneing and an immaculate design it should be 
>possible
> > to make a "Clean" coil. I have seen the wonders done with commercial
> > transmitters and the work involved in makeing them stay on freq and 
>perfect,
> > it's not a simple process :) But it can be done. Shielding and grounding
> > should help a deal too.
> > Also the location would help, it's 5 miles from ANYTHING and on hundreds 
>of
> > acres of lonely land. :)
>
>True - this all minimizes broadband noise. With a narrow band CW
>system one can end up with a powerful signal at just one frequency
>of course. However, output discharges and gap discharges make
>broadband noise. Anyone who's run a commercial transmitter with a
>sparking aerial would have seen this happening.  Steep discharge
>risetimes are step functions which have a significant spectrum of
>frequencies (theoretically infinite although at some point the power
>sinks below background noise).
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm
><snip>
>
>

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