Re: Halloween Coiling and the FCC

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

>>I've walked around my neighborhood with a longwave
>>radio that tunes to the frequency of my coil, which
>>is around 220khz.  The coil is in the basement.  While walking around I
>>have about a 3 block radius of perceptable noise from the coil.
 
> Another way do to the test would be to construct the type

> of receiver that Tesla himself used to detect the signal

> generated by a distant Tesla coil.  It consists of a well

> grounded helical resonator (a fire hydrant works
> great)

	I can't see how a fire hydrant is 'helical'?

> with an elevated capacitance.  The system has to be exactly

> tuned to the operating frequency of the Tesla coil.

	Within the context of the original inquiry (EMI
	to neighbors TV set) the study of 'strays'
	(harmonic and otherwise) may be as instructive, or
	more so...


	best
	dwp

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