Re: coherers

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When a young lad...  I made my coherer with a nickle, penny and a file...
> 
> 75% nickle and 25% copper filings...  Just copper wire going into it...
> 
> No goofy magnetic stainless steel stuff there...
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but does it really need all this bandwidth...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Terry

Terry:

	What did you do with your coherer, and how well did it work?  I suspect
that just about any conductor will serve for the filings, but that same
may work better than others.  

Ed

Ed