Re: Atlantic Leap

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
 
> Original poster: "Nicholas Field" <nick.field-at-hvfx.co.uk>

> Just a slightly off-beat event for those UK coilers out there.
> 
> To comemorate the 100th anniversary of Marconi's famous trans-atlantic
> transmission, The Royal Navy, Thunderer Squadron, along with the United
> States Naval Academy and the Canadian Forces School of Communications and
> Electronics are staging a re-creation of the original experiment, using 1900
> vintage equipment.
> 
> Details can be found at www.atlantic-leap-dot-org

A fascinating experiment, but will almost surely fail. A coherer
receiver 
has not enough sensitivity, requiring at least several Volts for 
excitation.   
Marconi used a magnetic detector in that experiment, and even so was
able 
to detect something only due to the huge power used in the transmitter, 
and because there were no other transmissions to interfere with his 
equipment.

> Perhaps a few banner waving Nikola Tesla protesters would be in order ;-)

How about a demonstration of radio transmission using a reproduction of
equimpent used by Tesla? Is a description of his radio-controlled model
boat available somewhere?

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz