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Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter



Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"This is exactly the altitude Tesla referred to in his patent.
Remember, Tesla was trying to utilize a tropospheric phenomenon, NOT
the 50+ mi high region that decades later was discovered to be the
ionosphere.

Matt D."

	He talked about a conducting layer at an altitude low enough to be
reached by a balloon (at least he thought so), but never calculated or
measured the consequences of having his upper electrode at a voltage
which could cause ionization.  The key words here are "Tesla was
trying"; remember that he never succeeded, for very sound reasons.

Ed