Cecil:

Ahhh, the "control freak" parents, I remember that generation of parents
well--I had a fully functional set of them myself (frown.)

With me it was tesla coils. But same result, constant complaining from
citizens I share this ether with--about interference with tv, radios, guitar
amps, etc... Made me wonder how Nicola Tesla got his start?

It was when I started winding them of heavy gauge wire on carpet tubes (massive
varnished cardboard tubes used to roll up large rugs) and using banks of 15KV
neon sign transformers with humongous caps wound from yards of aluminum foil
and visqueen plastic sheet with spark gaps constructed from tungsten alloy to
withstand the punishment--that the real trouble began, fuses began blowing and
corona discharges yards long... that kind of "light show" and
"booming/snapping" of the sparkgap was difficult to cloak from sight.

I became addicted to the smell of ozone, more addictive than heroin to a "rf
nut!"

You and I are kindred spirits in our natural gift to be annoying without
trying...

John

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Ham op wrote:
Question to the younger crowd ... Why did I have TVI?

Cecil, you should not answer. But, I suspect you had the same experience.
Note: Cecil and I both have formal technical training.

Back around 1954, I put 600 feet of copperweld in the air,
fed by a modified ART-13 running 500 watts. The lights
in my room would dim during key down.

The closest TV transmitter was 90 miles away in Houston.
Madisonville, TX had no TV cable system at the time. When
I fired up, I wiped out TV reception for a good 100 square
miles. My parents took the ART-13 away from me, made me take
down the 600 ft. random wire, and go back to my 40w Globe
Scout and 40m dipole. :-(

I also came through rather distorted on a local church's
sound system. Some of the congregation thought that God
was speaking to them in an unknown tongue. :-)
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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