Re: Streamer colour

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mike,
I looked at the photo of the Wendover coil and I would like to know more 
about it. Can you direct me to more information about it? The scale looks 
huge in the photo. Do you know of any photos that show the scale of the 
coil? Thanks.
Paul Brodie
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Subject: Re: Streamer colour

> Original poster: "Mike" 
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> Hi Finn,
>             I saw this earlier but waited to confirm the "in person" and
> not on film observations of color.
> Based on streamers being to the air and arcs being to ground or another
> hard near ground target, your
> colors are confirmed. Tonight I asked Robert Golka, very pointedly in the
> terms of to air and to ground,
> about the colors. The pink/blue, being the N21P and N21N band head spectra
> indeed are for streamers.
> The very hot ground strikes, very bright and hot, are the strikes.
> A picture is here of that Wendover ~100 KW coil. As you may know, he
> watched and worked it for years.
> 
<http://www.hot-streamer.com/mike2004/Golka_Coil_Wendover_July_4,_1974.jpg>www.hot-streamer.com/mike2004/Golka_Coil_Wendover_July_4,_1974.jpg
> Regards,
> Mike
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>>Original poster: Finn Hammer <<mailto:f-h@xxxx>f-h@xxxx>
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>>all,
>>
>>In my book, streamers terminate in the air, arcs terminate in a ground
>>connection.
>>
>>I have never seen a streamer that was not purple/pink.
>>Only the whimsiest feeble arsc were anything other than white/blue.
>>(And the arcs from Steve Connors OLTC were the fiercest ones of them all,
>>progressively whiter, thicker and more luminant towards the ground rod)
>>Am I missing something? Has anyone ever seen a white hot streamer, and I
>>mean _seen_ as opposed to seen a picture of.
>>
>>Cheers, Finn Hammer
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