On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:39:54 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote:

Tom Donaly wrote:
You load your antennas with a Tesla coil? Did you read the part
about a Tesla coil going to a lumped inductor when it was shortened?

A minimum Tesla coil is 1/4WL. My 75m bugcatcher coil
mounted on my pickup as a base-loaded coil with no
whip is 1/4WL on 6.6 MHz.

An 11.4 meter tall bugcatcher coil - sure.... Such are the rewards of
a Xerox based education.