Re: Antenna physical size & shape

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Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Terry,

I've seen at least one schematic of a TC being used as a transmitter 
where a tap was made into the bottom few turns of the coil at the 
base and this was used to drive the antenna (of proper length).

Gerry R

> Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A Tesla coil could not directly drive a real antenna due to enormous 
> impedance miss match.  We could redesign it to match into 50 ohms 
> but then we would just have a dull old radio transmitter of the 
> spark gap transmitter days...
>
> In the Tesla coil, we tune into a low capacitance high resistive 
> component top load to get super high voltage at the expense of radio 
> radiation (a good thing, less we attract the attention of the federales).
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry