Re: longitudinal waves

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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 3/9/02 1:07:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:



>
> There is no doubt in my mind that longitudinal forces are present.  And they
> are most efficiently detected at the ground plane of the energy source.  The
> radio waves of the local AM broadcast station are calculated to have a
> length of about 8.5 inches 


Uhhh,
f=c/x where x is wavelength. 
c=3.0 X10^8 meters/sec  
if x= 8.5in= 0.216 meters then f=13.9x10^8 Hz= 1.39GHz
I can find no record of any commercial AM station operating at 1.39GHz. What
station is it? (The commercial AM band in U.S. is 540 to 1600 KHz)
Matt D.