Re: Terry's Planar Antenna

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dan,

See:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/planant/waveant3.html

Cheers,

         Terry

At 05:38 PM 8/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Does Terry have the specifics of this antenna available??  I wouldn't mind
>building one myself.
>For tesla coil frequencies, I would think this would be pretty big, no??
>
>Any info appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Dan
>
>
>
> > Good news for anyone that hauls a coil to the Cheesehead Teslathon.
> >
> > We finally "mastered" Terry Fritz's planar antenna.  Using it with our Tek
> > storage scope we can tune your coils to within 1/8 turn peak for max.
> > efficiency.  You can see the peak to peak amplitude variation with each
> > captured shot on the DSO.
> >
> > Terry's antenna is terrific for both initial and final tuning of all Tesla
> > coils no matter how large or small.
> >
> > Hats off to Terry for this terrific idea and design work!
> >
> > Hope to see you all at the Cheesehead Teslathon on Sept. 6th.
> >
> > Now if we could just convince Terry to come, . . . . . . ., I'm sure he
> > could show us all a few more tricks.   Hmmmm.
> >
> > At the cheap airfare prices RRC might even pick up the cost of an airline
> > ticket --- are you listening Terry?
> >
> > I'm also thinking of picking up the airline ticket cost to get Harry
> > Goldman over here --- if we can get him to fly.  Maybe Amtrack?
> >
> > D.C. Cox
> >
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> >
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> > E11870 Shadylane Rd.
> > Baraboo   WI   53913
> >
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