Re: new coil emerging

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 12/1/01 3:10:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> Get a saltwater cap, topload, RF ground, and tune the coil and it will make
> nice streamers.  Those are the keys you need to get it to work.  The RF
> ground is just a wire going to a little pipe in the ground or anything like
> that.  The top load is like a kid's ball wrapped with aluminum foil, 



Hi,
for a first coil of this size, I used a copper float from a toilet tank.( it's
pre-threaded)
Matt D.