Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter

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Original poster: "Dan" <DUllfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When you say "Tesla never succeeded", you make it sound like he tried 
one transmitter after another, and never got them to work. But this 
is not the case: the one plant that would have decided the issue one 
way or the other, was Wardenclyff, and it never got completed! He 
never got funding for anything else approaching that scale after 
that. So I don't think the issue is settled at all. Why won't anyone 
try to duplicate his experiments? all anyone does is see how big of a 
spark they can make...

Dan
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Subject: Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter

Original poster: Ed Phillips <<mailto:evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>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