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And what of the FCC?




From: 	richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 24, 1997 6:43 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: And what of the FCC?

At 06:08 PM 9/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, September 24, 1997 6:56 AM
>To: 	Tesla List
>Subject: 	Re: And what of the FCC?
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>Richard Hull wrote:
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>> Finally, no good coil throws out much RF even in the multi-KW class.  Tesla
>> noted this and I have actually checked it out with VLF receivers in a car.
>> The classic one is Nemesis.  I operated Nemesis one time at 14KW and had
>> Bill Richards of our group on the phone just before firing and had him tune
>> around with a navy submarine quad conversion VLF receiver to the exact, and
>> harmonic frequencies of Nemesis.  He lived 10 miles away.  He had a nice
>> long wire (200 footer).  The tone of the gap would be the dead giveaway.  He
>> heard- zippo.
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>That is very good news!  How about your immediate neighbors?  Have they ever
>had any complaints, other than about the large 'buzzsaw' in your woodshed?
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>-GL
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No real complaints other than one neighbor noted that when I ran my saw and
he was on his portable phone, it hung up for him in mid conversation.
Another neighbor noted that at night sparks were dancing on my house roof
top some years ago when Nemesis was in full swing.  And finally, one Sunday
during a TCBOR meeting the fire department showed up sirens wailing 6 doors
down as a woman complained of sparks coming off her sink faucet.

Things are much quieter now that the maggies are in use at ~ half the power
and getting almost the same spark.  My grounding system is much improved and
I run the big coils a lot less frequently.

Most folks are on cable and no TVI is noted.  Most listen to FM, thus, only
AM has a little trash in it and then only out to about 2 blocks.  AM is
totally wiped out only for about 100 feet around the lab. Given that this
happens for about 2- 2minute periods a week now,  the neighborhood is rather
RFI free.


Richard Hull,TCBOR