topic drift from Russian high-voltage to Russian Tesla Coils and Canadian ham radio operators

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If it was a pulsing sound on the shortwave and amateur bands it might
have been the Russian Woodpecker:
http://www.answers.com/topic/russian-woodpecker

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/steel-yard.htm



No Tesla there but serious high-power RF with frequency hopping -- high
tech for its day...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:20 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Russian high-voltage installation (being scrapped?)
>
>
> Original poster: Davetracer@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 5/2/2005 11:01:48 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Tesla list wrote:
>
>  >Original poster: Grishka <ghome@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  >Hi everyone,
>  >
>  >some words about these hv units - there`re some
> marx-generators in Snt
>  >Petersburg (Leningrad, you know :-) The huge unit "kondensator" is
>  >really a hv capacitor. As the sign says:
>  >
>  >"200 MKF    5 kV NOM  7.5 kV ISP"
>  >
>  >it`s 200 microfarad, 5 kv nominal voltage, 7.5 kv - tested voltage.
>  >
>  >There are lots of such capacitors there - in 70`s years in
> was a high
>  >voltage laboratory. Nowadays it has no fences, no guard - everyone
>  >could enter there & take everything you want. It`s a pity -
> but those
>  >photos says the true situaton in our research projects...
>  >
>  >If you have any difficulties in translation those signs - you may
>  >ask me one more time ;)
>  >
>
>
>
>      Does anyone else recall a show on Discovery Channel (or
> one like it),
> discussing the possibility of the Soviets running Tesla
> Coils? While my
> memory is vague on this, I recall some Canadian ham radio operators
> complaining that some frequencies were no longer usable because of
> interference, and they showed the signal coming across pretty
> clearly on an
> oscilloscope.
>
>      I have a faint memory that there were three sites eventually
> triangulated, all in the western portion of the USSR. Because
> this was pre
> Soviet collapse no investigation was possible.
>
>      If this doesn't ring any bells I can go look up an
> article I did that
> mentioned this and get more details. I'm just wondering if
> anyone knows
> offhand.
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      Dave Small
>
>
>
>
>