Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter

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Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Original poster: William Beaty billb@xxxxxxxxxx

> > > As far as I know, an x-ray tube at the top of a 10 megavolt tesla 
> > > coil is something that nobody has ever experimented
> > > with.

> > Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> > . . . Golka did use a cold cathode x-ray tube as a rectifier. . . .
> > . . . Of course that never worked. . . .

According to Sam T. all of those custom-made single-electrode X-ray 
tubes immediately failed when placed into operation at the top of his 
Tesla coil. . . .

> Yep, but I'm talking about a miles-tall vertical "searchlight beam" 
> which acts as the main antenna. . . .

The purpose of the ionizing beam is to create a conducting path 
between the transmitter's and the receiver's elevated terminal up to 
the conducting region of the atmosphere.  Rather than "antenna," a 
better term for the "searchlight beam" is "high-voltage transmission line."

Gary Peterson

> William J. Beaty