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Active8 wrote:

In article ,
says...
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...ticleID=609108

I've always assumed that the performance of ferrite-rod antennas in
transmitting applications was limited by core saturation. Wonder if
there's anything to this "invention"?

-- jm

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not much info there, but i've read articles about russian experiments on
small antennae and something about a capacitive antenna.

somewhere in the jumble, i came across a theory/claim supposedly
originated by Nikolai Tesla. the theory being that applying a large
voltage - low freq. ac, dc... i don't remember - to a short antenna
would set up an electrically large antenna by virtue of the electric
field.

say you applied 1000V to a 1m whip. that's 1000V/m. or it's 1V/m over a
length of 1000m effective antenna length. that's the theory... key word
"theory".

brs,
mike

Saturating the air becomes a problem. Coronas will sap away the power
and slowly incinerate the antenna with ozone.