Re: Validating the "Tesla Effect" and retardation

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The scientific method requires that mathematical models be developed 
in an attempt to describe and explain the "Tesla Effect" that has 
been observed by a number of people on this list and elsewhere."

   Perhaps you should define the "Tesla effect" before the 
discussion continues.  Tesla claimed essentially lossless 
transmission independent of whatever effect caused it.  I have seen 
absolutely NO evidence of that presented here or elsewhere.

"I don't agree with you at all.  Validation of the Tesla Effect in my 
mind will be accomplished when even the smallest amount of electrical 
energy transmitted by a Tesla coil RF transmitter is detected using a 
grounded Tesla receiving transformer while at the same time the 
energy is undetectable using a radio antenna connected to a sensitive 
radio receiver at the same location."

   Your definition apparently is that any coupling with a grounded 
system is "Tesla effect".  You're dead wrong on that of course, 
unless you want to call all signal transmission via RADIATED SIGNALS 
(which Tesla specifically denigrated and predicted would vanish by 
1920) and received with a system employing an antenna and grounded 
receiver as being transferred by said effect.  In that case you'd say 
all conventional AM broadcast ground wave transmission uses the Tesla 
effect.  Do you?  Simplest test would be to see if the signal at the 
receiving site could be detected by a receiver with a loop antenna, 
floating several feet in the air.  Answer is that it surely would but 
I haven't seen anyone mentioning that but might have overlooked something.

"The separation  between the TC transmitter site and the receiving 
site has to be a multiple wavelength distance.  The radio antenna 
must NOT be grounded to the earth.  Ideally it would be a vertical 
1/2-wave dipole, perhaps incorporating loading coils, suspended in 
free space from a helium balloon.  The radio receiver would be a 
small battery powered cross-band transposer, say 137 kHz to 224 
MHz.  Alternatively the radio antenna could be a vertical 1/4-wave 
base-loaded monopole positioned directly above an elevated, insulated 
counterpoise.  A third option, and probably the easiest to construct, 
would be a horizontal 1/2-wave dipole with loading coils."

   What causes any signals received at distances which aren't 
multiples of the wavelength?  I think Dr. Resonance's observation at 
4800 feet could hardly be at a multiple of a wavelength and the 
implication of his note is that signals were diminishing with 
distance and observable all the way from the transmitter to the 
point.  The receiver with a loop antenna and a speaker blasting away 
would be far simpler and would accomplish the same purpose as the 
methods you suggest.
"The Tesla receiving transformer could be passive and incorporate a 
low aspect ratio helical resonator.  Alternatively, the receiver 
could be an identical TC RF transmitter synchronized with the distant 
energy source and having a phase shifting network so the phase 
relationship between the two oscillators can be adjusted."

   What would you connect to the top of the resonator?  Not sure 
what the last sentence means.

"The use of inflamatory terms such as "fanatics" does absolutely 
nothing to advance this research, and, in fact, has a retarding 
influence.  I sincerely wish you would cut it out."

   OK Gary.  Let me replace "fanatics" with "avid fans of the Tesla 
effect"; surely that isn't inflamatory and merely refers to 
enthusiasts or devotees, neither of which could possibly be construed 
as denegrative.  In thinking about all of this I suggest you defend 
Tesla by a simple dissertation explaining the difference between 
ground wave transmission, conventional inductive or capacitve 
coupling of resonant circuits, and the Tesla effect.  In a given 
situation how could one discover which was causing a measured voltage 
in the receiving resonator?  Perhaps such an experiment can be 
analyzed and then conducted according to your rules.

Ed