"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Isolating the magmount would be disconnecting the
ground plane from a 1/4WL antenna and would contribute
nothing of value to the discussion.

Certainly not for you, that is apparent. It would only more closely
conform to your reference material's isolated coils, and that would
jeopardize your "confirmations" n'est pas?

On the contrary, Tesla coils are operated over a large ground plane.
The sphere at the top functions like a top hat. Everyone really should
read the referenced Corum papers to avoid misconceptions like this
one.
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73, Cecil, W5DXP