Re: knock on the door

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Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

In California you can get a visit within 30 minits I was,
       Robert   H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:45:35 -0600
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: knock on the door
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 17:18:48 -0600
 >
 > Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 >
 > I don't think anyone will ever have to worry about a knock on the door from
 > the FEDS.  There was a guy in the neighbor hood with a armature radio
 > station that over powered ever TV in the neighbor hood.  The guy talked on
 > his radio non stop.  He was on the radio by 6am every morning and when I
 > got home from work at 3:40pm the guy was still on the radio and at 10:30pm
 > when I went to bed the guy was still on the radio.   The TV picked up the
 > guy talking with a blizzard of static on all TV stations.  It was
 > impossible to watch TV.  I switched to cable TV thinking it would help but
 > his signal still over powered my TV.  I put the TV in a grounded metal box
 > and it helped.  One by one the neighbors complained and ask the guy to cut
 > it out.  The guy said he has a license and is doing nothing illegal so buzz
 > off.  The neighbor hood called a meeting and I was elected to check into
 > this to see what could be done.  I called the FCC and they mailed me some
 > forms to fill out.  Several pages of forms.   The forms ask for the guys
 > transmitter manufacture name, manufacture model number, serial number,
 > power output, frequency, his antenna model, type and serial number.  The
 > FCC wants the mans name, address, social security number, license number,
 > date of birth, etc.  And to top it off they wanted to know the guys FCC
 > license number.   The only way to get that information is to knock on the
 > guys door and ask or break in to the guys house when he is not home and
 > look for myself.  I don't think so!!!  I called the FCC and was told the
 > FCC is strapped for funds and will no longer investigate on its own all the
 > leg work must be done by the person filing the complaint.  I reported my
 > findings to the neighbor hood committee and a few days later someone
 > attached a log chain to the guys antenna in the middle of the night and
 > pulled it about 2 blocks down the street and left the twisted wreckage in
 > the middle of the street.  The guy was off the air for about 2 weeks and
 > back on the air again for 1 day when his antenna was destroyed again.   The
 > guy finally moved a few miles out of town on a 5 acre lot where he has
 > lived there now for over 15 years.  He has his 5 acre lot covered with all
 > sorts of antennas.   Now everyone is happy and the FCC did absolutely
 > nothing.
 >
 > Gary Weaver
 > gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net
 > Why Wait?  Move to EarthLink.
 >
 >
 >> [Original Message]
 >> From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >> Date: 5/21/2004 8:18:58 PM
 >> Subject: Re: Tesla Coil RF interference 2
 >>
 >> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >>
 >> "Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >>
 >> Transmitters use to be Spark Gap type transmitters way back when.  The
 >> Titanic had a spark gap transmitter as I recall.  I wonder if an LC
 >> circuit
 >> could be attached to a TC spark gap and transmit on a certain
 >> frequency.  I
 >> just did some calculations and I get 900 MHZ with 1pf cap and 3 turns of
 >> .018 dia. wire .125" OD .250" long.  Wonder if a cell phone would pick
 >> that
 >> up.  I might build an LC circuit on my TC for a certain radio frequency
 >> and
 >> see if it will transmit to a radio.   I did a little research on spark
 >> gap
 >> transmitters it seems to be only a spark gap connected to an LC circuit
 >> with an antenna.   Simple technology.
 >>
 >>
 >> Gary Weaver
 >> gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net
 >> Why Wait?  Move to EarthLink."
 >>
 >> I'm reading my mail late so there have probably been lots of answers to
 >> this by now.  First of all, you do generate RF with a TC and, hooked to
 >> a suitable antenna, could radiate a lot of power.  Result would be lots
 >> of radio interference and, probably, a knock on the door sooner or
 >> later.  Don't even think about it!
 >>
 >> As for the 900 MHz transmission, your proposed system wouldn't work.  A
 >> 6" long dipole, fed with voltage at the center and with a spark gap
 >> across the connections, would generate very broad waves with a frequency
 >> around 900 to 1000 MHz.  Almost exactly what Hertz did in some of his
 >> early experimentgs.  The signal probably wouldn't be detectable in a
 >> cell phone, which is specifically designed to reject such interference.
 >>
 >> I remember seeing a web page recently in which someone discussed
 >> duplicating Hertz's experiments with modern equipment and a Google
 >> search might find it.  I have tried transmitting at about 300 MHz and
 >> could generate a detectable signal to about 50 feet from the antenna.
 >>
 >> Ed
 >>
 >
 >