Re: terrys scope antenna

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Original poster: "colin heath" <colin.heath4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

hi terry,
            sorry the link does work it was me having a brain fart!
thanks for that it looks a really good and simple design i look forward to
watching it all happening on screen.
cheers
colin

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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: terrys scope antenna


> Original poster: "Paul Benham" <paulb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Terry,
>
> If you connect 50R to the scope end you will not get a flat frequency
> response, even though you are then terminating the cable correctly.  It
> needs the high impedance of the scope to work correctly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: terrys scope antenna
>
>
>  > Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > Hi Again,
>  >
>  > I took some pictures and details of the one I use now.  It just has the
>  > voltage side and needs no etching.  If you have the parts you can make
it
>  > in a 1/2 hour.  Since the front is solid copper instead of "fingers",
the
>  > frequency will not go way up to 100MHz, but who cares ;-)
>  >
>  > http://hot-streamer.com/temp/NewerSimplePlaneWave.pdf
>  >
>  > Use tiny but leaded parts.  Surface mount parts just bust up too
>  > easy.  This new one is super easy to make and very hard to break.  I
use
> it
>  > all the time.  It likes 50 ohm coax back to the scope which should be
>  > terminated at 50 ohms too, but I usually don't worry about that.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >          Terry
>  >
>  > ---------------------------
>  >
>  > Hi Colin,
>  >
>  > They are here:
>  >
>  > http://hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/planant/waveant3.html
>  >
>  > I continue to like the plane wave antenna's very much!!  These days I
just
>  > use a simple but tougher version.  I can post a few pics later.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >          Terry
>  >
>  > At 11:13 AM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
>  > >hi terry and all,
>  > >                     i remeber reading a couple of years ago about a
> scope
>  > > antenna terry built so he could watch it on a scope at a
distance(planar
>  > > perhaps?) anyone know eher the plans went as i cant find them now?
>  > >many thanks
>  > >colin heath
>  >
>  >
>  >
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