Re: Terry's New Plane Wave Antenna

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Original poster: Grishka <ghome@xxxxxxxxx>

Hello Terry,

I got interested in your "Large Wide-Bandwidth Plane-Wave Antenna", 
described here:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PlaneWave.pdf

and here:

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

I`m going to take some measurements of my VTTC with this unit (I 
haven`t build it yet).
Everything seems to be in order, but - you use Tektronix TDS210, as i 
see from the photos
this o-scope is very small (battery-powered perhaps?) Mine o-scope 
was made in USSR, it
has a massive _metall_ chassis (signal ground - one signal wire is 
tied to the chassis),
and it`s energised by the mains.

So, does all your system has the "floating" potential, or it`s 
connected to the ground
anywhere? See - the whole capacitance of my scope chassis is not very 
small - can it
influence the measurements anyway? And, maybe there`re some new 
revisions of this
antenna after this one:

"The new one is larger, quieter, better bandwidth, tougher, easier to make..."

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PlaneWave.pdf

?



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Best regards,
 Grishka                          mailto:ghome@xxxxxxxxx