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Re: [TCML] Where is everyone?



Hi Troy,

I"m still here keeping the list gears oiled. Terry's still around but not active on the list. There are now several moderators, Gary, Jim, and Dave. The team approach seems to work better as it allows for vacations and
reduces burnout.  Amazing that it's been like 24 years since the list started,
isn't it?

Chip

 On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Troy wrote:

Is this not "Chip's list" any more? I joined around 1997 when I was 15 or so. I remember Chip ran the list and Terry was the moderator. What happened to Chip and Terry? I joined shortly after building my first VDG, while I was planning to build my first TC. My first TC used a single OBIT and was a rough affair but I got a few inches of streamers from it. By the time I was 16 I build a 4" diameter coil powered by 4 OBITS and got 3' streamers... But school and life and university got in the way... at some point I dropped off the list and lived mostly in small apartments so I couldn't have my fun stuff until I bought my first house in about 2005. I build a very small coil there. I've looked at the list off and on since then but I just don't have time anymore. I've moved overseas from Canada to the UK since and although I played with a few more small coils in the past few years I haven't had the room to have a TC again until recently. Last year I moved into a house in the Kent countryside with a proper 2 car garage to turn into a workshop. I'm planning to have a real ground rod put in at some point and finally look into the DRSSTC thing that eveyrone is talking about ;).? Back in the 90's the big rage that I remember was OLTCs... They seemed to die quickly but I think they're the great-grandfathers of DRSSTCs.

Cheers,
Troy.
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