Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter

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Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ED. My Father was the intelagence  officer in charge of instalation and
chose the call  sign to honor my Mother whos name is Helen. I do not
remember the details of the sight except that dad would tip the mercury pot
rectifiers and strike the arc in the rectifiers as the station was started.
   Robert  G
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> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:18:22 -0600
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter
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> Resent-Date: Sun,  9 Oct 2005 16:18:54 -0600 (MDT)
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> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> "To sceptics. in 1938 a radio transmitter KHELEN in honolulu hawaii was
> opperated to transmit signals to the mainland by the US army. This
> transmitter was disigned by Nicoli Tesla him self so the idea that tesla
> didn't transmit is faulse
> Robert   H "
>
> Where did you get that information and what was the design?  Details?
> Power?  Frequency?  Antenna?  Type of modulation?  That is a most
> unusual call sign - where did it come from?  By the way, no one has said
> that "Tesla didn't transmit".  Leland Anderson's book has details of
> early experiments.  No power transmitted, of course.
>
> Ed
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