On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:45:16 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

Nope but they did come looking for my younger brother in about 1949 0r
50. somebody gave him a "Tesla coil machine" and he used to come home
from school and "experiment" with it. Eventually there was a funny
looking panel truck driving around, had a big "ring" on the roof, and
one day a pleasant young guy rapped on the door and asked my mother if
anyone in the family was a radio operator. She showed him the Tesla
coil and he laughed. told her to tell her boy not to play with it when
people wanted to watch TV. It seems that my brother in his
"experiment" had attached an antenna to the coil and was broadcasting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

Imagine this monster down your street...(c;

Tesla coilers are very serious people....scary.

Notice the huge power supply and, at the base of the coil, the massive
spark gap lit up white hot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV6Dhza2G0
Of course, that can't match what the power company boys can do...(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4
..or the effects of the HAARP weapon.....


My brother's would light up a florescent tube (neon light, in the
argot of the day :-) by holding it on your hand and weaving it near
the secondary coil. It also produced some scary long sparks.

As I remember it my brother had rigged up a "pulser" for it by gluing
tin foil from a some cigarette wrapper on a phonograph record and
rigging two wire contractors to complete a circuit as the record
turned. The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably
didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)