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Re: just wondering (Schumann resonance)



Original poster: "June Heidlebaugh" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Please do not confuse "Wireless death ray" with Teslas power transmission.
The subjects are nor related except to say both have to do with AC. Tesla
also made air turbines and air diodes, but those were not coils either.
     Robert   H

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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:15 AM
Subject: RE: just wondering (Schumann resonance)


 > Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>
 >
 > I have a couple of thoughts about the Schumann resonance.
 >
 > As a radio ham I know about propagation and stuff. And I understand the
 > Schumann resonance is a standing wave caused by a radio wave that, in
 > wavelength terms, fits exactly once (or a whole number of times) round the
 > earth. (please correct me if I'm wrong.)
 >
 > Now, if my "standing wave" analogy is correct, I would imagine the
 > propagation path for the wave that forms the Schumann resonance is pretty
 > lossy. When talking to very high powered foreign stations on the HF band,
I
 > could often hear a distinct "echo" on their signal, which is of course
 > caused by their radio waves reaching me twice, the short way round the
 > world, and the long way.
 >
 > Anyway, from observations like these, I would estimate the loss for a trip
 > round the world is over 100dB. I was working at 10s of MHz, it would of
 > course be lower at the 10s of Hz where the Schumann resonance happens. But
 > even assuming the loss goes down in proportion to the frequency, it's
still
 > a 40dB loss (40dB= 1/10000) at 10Hz.
 >
 > So how on earth you could ever excite a resonance in such a lossy system,
 > using even the most powerful transmitter ever made, I don't know.
 >
 > If these loss figures are ballpark, it blows all that "wireless death ray"
 > cr*p out the water too: For instance, Tesla couldn't have caused the
 > Tunguska explosion ;) without causing an explosion 40dB bigger at his
 > transmitter site, and I think folks would have noticed New York missing
:)))
 >
 > Steve C.
 >
 >