Energy-sucking radio antennas!
William Beaty
I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
I've written it up here:
ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
Atoms are far smaller than the wavelength of light waves, so how come they
can absorb light so well? No, it's not a quantum-mechanical effect
involving tiny photons hitting tiny atoms. Instead it involves classical
EM. Most amazing is the idea that the same physics can probably be used
to make very small Tx/Rx antennas.
Awhile back there was a furor about "Crossed-Field Antennas" (CFAs) which
supposedly allowed us to transmit efficiently on 80m with a tiny desktop
antenna. Well, that might not have been genuine, but I believe that the
above "energy sucking" process can do the same thing. The key is to build
a high-Q resonant system. It stores energy in the form of an immense EM
field, and the field itself acts as the antenna. In other words, if an
antenna is far, far smaller than one wavelength, we can still get the
signal out by superimposing a huge e-field (or b-field) on the antenna in
phase with the transmitter. The large field lets the transmitter couple
itself to empty space. To do this, either use a loop antenna with a
relatively huge current, or use a dipole with a relatively huge voltage.
The antenna itself is far too small to be resonant, and so we add a
corresponding coil or capacitor to create a resonator which allows
efficient transmission. And for a receiver, if the antenna is actively
resonating because of energy it had previously received, then that antenna
receives MORE energy than a non-resonating antenna would.
Maybe all the hams here will say "NO DUH!" If so, then why would anyone
care about those CFAs and their claimed ability to act as large antennas,
while remaining very small? Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me that
atoms act like electrically-small resonant loop antennas, and not like
electrically large quarter-wave dipoles? I never encountered this idea in
any physics class. Maybe only the amateurs know about it, while
physicists do not.
Super-regen receivers as well as AM portables have apparantly been using
this "energy sucking" effect all along. A resonant loop-antenna is NOT
just an inductive pickup coil with a narrow-band filter. It actually
behaves electrically far larger than its physical dimensions. And if two
resonant coils are near each other, they can behave like a well-coupled
transformer even though their mutual inductance is very small and the
distance between the coils is large. Weird! I bet this is no big news to
radio designers, but physicists never have encountered such a thing.
Another similar topic:
TESLA'S GREAT MISTAKE
http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html
(Nicola Tesla was using 'G-line' microwave waveguides... at 10KHZ!???)
Lots more crack-brained detrius can be found at:
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James Meyer
>Atoms are far smaller than the wavelength of light waves, so how come they
>can absorb light so well?
Atoms, acting alone, do *not* absorb light well at all unless the
light's wavelength matches one of the resonances in the electron "shell" of that
atom.
A low pressure gas (or plasma) consisting of individual atoms all of the
same element will be almost completely transparent, absorbing no light, at most
wavelengths. At some resonant wavelengths, the gas will be almost opaque,
absorbing those wavelengths very well.
Your revolutionary breakthru is just a lot of wishful thinking. You
should stick to those things that you can demonstrate rather than things you
*think* you know that ain't so.
Your excellent writeup on holograms produced with a compass on a sheet
of plastic was a classic example of good science. This cross-fielded Tesla
stuff is a good example of very bad psuedo-science.
Jim
Helmut Wabnig
>
>I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
>figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
>
>I've written it up here:
>
> ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
> http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
>
>Atoms are far smaller than the wavelength of light waves, so how come they
>can absorb light so well? No, it's not a quantum-mechanical effect
>involving tiny photons hitting tiny atoms. Instead it involves classical
>EM. Most amazing is the idea that the same physics can probably be used
>to make very small Tx/Rx antennas.
>
>
snip
>
>Maybe all the hams here will say "NO DUH!" If so, then why would anyone
>care about those CFAs and their claimed ability to act as large antennas,
>while remaining very small? Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me that
>atoms act like electrically-small resonant loop antennas, and not like
>electrically large quarter-wave dipoles? I never encountered this idea in
>any physics class. Maybe only the amateurs know about it, while
>physicists do not.
>
>........
You never attended a physics class.
No, you didn't.
Don't lie.
W.
Gary Coffman
>I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
>figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
>
>I've written it up here:
>
> ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
> http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
HA HA HA HA!
Best laugh I've had today.
Gary
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Al, N2NKB
set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
house-hold appliances.
Al
William Beaty wrote in message <7p2rv3$acn$1...@eskinews.eskimo.com>...
>
>I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
>figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
>
>I've written it up here:
>
> ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
> http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
>
>Atoms are far smaller than the wavelength of light waves, so how come they
>can absorb light so well? No, it's not a quantum-mechanical effect
>involving tiny photons hitting tiny atoms. Instead it involves classical
>EM. Most amazing is the idea that the same physics can probably be used
>to make very small Tx/Rx antennas.
>
>
>Awhile back there was a furor about "Crossed-Field Antennas" (CFAs) which
>supposedly allowed us to transmit efficiently on 80m with a tiny desktop
>antenna. Well, that might not have been genuine, but I believe that the
>above "energy sucking" process can do the same thing. The key is to build
>a high-Q resonant system. It stores energy in the form of an immense EM
>field, and the field itself acts as the antenna. In other words, if an
>antenna is far, far smaller than one wavelength, we can still get the
>signal out by superimposing a huge e-field (or b-field) on the antenna in
>phase with the transmitter. The large field lets the transmitter couple
>itself to empty space. To do this, either use a loop antenna with a
>relatively huge current, or use a dipole with a relatively huge voltage.
>The antenna itself is far too small to be resonant, and so we add a
>corresponding coil or capacitor to create a resonator which allows
>efficient transmission. And for a receiver, if the antenna is actively
>resonating because of energy it had previously received, then that antenna
>receives MORE energy than a non-resonating antenna would.
>
>Maybe all the hams here will say "NO DUH!" If so, then why would anyone
>care about those CFAs and their claimed ability to act as large antennas,
>while remaining very small? Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me that
>atoms act like electrically-small resonant loop antennas, and not like
>electrically large quarter-wave dipoles? I never encountered this idea in
>any physics class. Maybe only the amateurs know about it, while
>physicists do not.
>
>
Al, N2NKB
Many amateur radio operators like myself have lit up fluorescent
bulbs at close range to our transmitters. But I never heard of
someone living to a commercial station that had all of that energy
near by. I hope we hear more interesting stories about this on
this newsgroup; I think that the thread will be long.
Al
Ing. Franz Glaser wrote in message <37B73AE1...@eunet.at>...
>"Al, N2NKB" wrote:
>>
>> You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
>> set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
>> house-hold appliances.
>>
>> William Beaty wrote in message <7p2rv3$acn$1...@eskinews.eskimo.com>...
>> >
>> >I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
>> >figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered
before.
>> >I've written it up here:
>> > ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
>> > http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
>This is robbery, of course. When I was in school, very close to
>a transmitting station, we could have flourescent lamps light
>brightly without a wall connection. It was necessary to short
>circuit the lamps at night.
>It was possible to drive our pocket radio with the energy from
>the transmitter - but of course we did listen Radio Luxembourg,
>they had much better music :-)
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John Woodgate
net.att.net> inimitably wrote:
>You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
>set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
>house-hold appliances.
Yes, you can. You need a lot of antennas, and the regulatory authorities
would take a very dim view of your activity, but it is possible. There
were cases in the 1920s in Britain, when the Daventry transmitter 5XX
(200 kHz) first went on-air. Using neon lamps, no rectification was
necessary.
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Ing. Franz Glaser
>
> You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
> set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
> house-hold appliances.
>
Mark Fergerson
William Beaty wrote:
>
> I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
> figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
I do that all the time, only to discover I'm not the first. <sigh>
> I've written it up here:
>
> ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
> http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
> Atoms are far smaller than the wavelength of light waves, so how come they
> can absorb light so well? No, it's not a quantum-mechanical effect
> involving tiny photons hitting tiny atoms. Instead it involves classical
> EM. Most amazing is the idea that the same physics can probably be used
> to make very small Tx/Rx antennas.
Making connections to (not to mention impedance matching to)
individual electron shells is a tad tricky...
> Awhile back there was a furor about "Crossed-Field Antennas" (CFAs) which
> supposedly allowed us to transmit efficiently on 80m with a tiny desktop
> antenna. Well, that might not have been genuine, but I believe that the
> above "energy sucking" process can do the same thing. The key is to build
> a high-Q resonant system. It stores energy in the form of an immense EM
> field, and the field itself acts as the antenna. In other words, if an
Congratulations! You have discovered the mysterious Near Field... that
gray area where inverse-square no longer applies. the "Bermuda Triangle"
of Maxwell's equations.
<snip>
> Maybe all the hams here will say "NO DUH!" If so, then why would anyone
> care about those CFAs and their claimed ability to act as large antennas,
> while remaining very small? Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me that
> atoms act like electrically-small resonant loop antennas, and not like
> electrically large quarter-wave dipoles? I never encountered this idea in
> any physics class. Maybe only the amateurs know about it, while
> physicists do not.
Depends where you went to school. Lots of "Physics Professors" never
get past inclined planes and carbon paper. You obviously read a lot, so
read more.
> Super-regen receivers as well as AM portables have apparantly been using
> this "energy sucking" effect all along. A resonant loop-antenna is NOT
> just an inductive pickup coil with a narrow-band filter. It actually
> behaves electrically far larger than its physical dimensions. And if two
> resonant coils are near each other, they can behave like a well-coupled
> transformer even though their mutual inductance is very small and the
> distance between the coils is large. Weird! I bet this is no big news to
> radio designers, but physicists never have encountered such a thing.
A looptenna generally has a core with mu much greater than unity. Are
you trying to make a case for atoms as transformers, with electron
orbits a single turns? Think of a nucleus as a coil core. What's its mu?
What's the mutual coupling between two orbits in different atoms? Small
quantities, small (not very useful) effects.
> Another similar topic:
>
> TESLA'S GREAT MISTAKE
> http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html
>
> (Nicola Tesla was using 'G-line' microwave waveguides... at 10KHZ!???)
You know, that sounds loopy as all hell, but the diagrams are pretty
convincing. Might influence us "lightning antenna" addicts.
> Lots more crack-brained detrius can be found at:
<snip>
Bill, your "reality filter" may be a bit more broadband than most, but
you gather interesting reading.
Mark L. Fergerson
Mark Fergerson
John Woodgate wrote:
>
> <7p7crl$856$1...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>, Al, N2NKB <n2nkb@n2nkb.?.world
> net.att.net> inimitably wrote:
> >You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
> >set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
> >house-hold appliances.
> >Al
> Yes, you can. You need a lot of antennas, and the regulatory authorities
> would take a very dim view of your activity, but it is possible. There
> were cases in the 1920s in Britain, when the Daventry transmitter 5XX
> (200 kHz) first went on-air. Using neon lamps, no rectification was
> necessary.
Why would they care? Don't commercial transmitter operators take a tax
loss for "unavoidable signal absorption"? They certainly ought to. No
real antenna can be sited for perfect radiation. Any signal lost heating
a mountainside (or my home) doesn't help get the ads out, which pay the
rent (and taxes). Don't electric utility companies do it? That 60 Hz
heats a lot of ground... If a power company has to pay "cancer taxes" in
California, could they sue for unpaid-for absorbed power from the
"victims"?
Mark L. Fergerson
Gerry Quinn
>"Al, N2NKB" wrote:
>>
>> You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
>> set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
>> house-hold appliances.
>>
>> >figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
>> > ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
>> > http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
>a transmitting station, we could have flourescent lamps light
>brightly without a wall connection. It was necessary to short
>circuit the lamps at night.
>It was possible to drive our pocket radio with the energy from
>the transmitter - but of course we did listen Radio Luxembourg,
>they had much better music :-)
I remember reading about a guy (may have been German) who was prosecuted
for powering his apartment from a coil hung out the window near a
transmitter. Apparently his efficiency was such that he cast a 'shadow'
- although maybe that's something that was claimed in court so as to
'simplify' matters for the jurors!
The crystal radio, with no power supply, is another example of this
phenomenon.
- Gerry Quinn
Roy McCammon
> Super-regen receivers as well as AM portables have apparantly been using
> this "energy sucking" effect all along. A resonant loop-antenna is NOT
> just an inductive pickup coil with a narrow-band filter. \
Super regen is just positive feedback.
AM receivers don't require highly efficient antenna's.
Their performance is more governed by signal to noise
ratio and in most populated environments, the dominant noise
is not in the receiver or antenna. Its external. The signal
to noise ratio is fixed before the antenna has any effect.
> It actually
> behaves electrically far larger than its physical dimensions. And if two
> resonant coils are near each other, they can behave like a well-coupled
> transformer even though their mutual inductance is very small and the
> distance between the coils is large.
Well coupled means that M is not much smaller than sqrt (L1*L2)
where M is the mutual inductance and L1 and L2 are the individual
self inductances of the two coils.
> I bet this is no big news to radio designers, but
> physicists never have encountered such a thing.
The original radio designers were physicists.
Roy McCammon
> Maybe all the hams here will say "NO DUH!" If so, then why would anyone
> care about those CFAs and their claimed ability to act as large antennas,
> while remaining very small? Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me that
> atoms act like electrically-small resonant loop antennas, and not like
> electrically large quarter-wave dipoles? I never encountered this idea in
> any physics class. Maybe only the amateurs know about it, while
> physicists do not.
I think a physicist might say that an antenna acts like
a big atom, rather than the other way around.
John Miles
>
>If a power company has to pay "cancer taxes" in
Whoa. This, I haven't heard of. Could you elaborate on that?
-- jm KE5FX
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Walter Gray
:<7p7crl$856$1...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>, Al, N2NKB <n2nkb@n2nkb.?.world
:net.att.net> inimitably wrote:
:>You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
:>set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
:>house-hold appliances.
:Yes, you can. You need a lot of antennas, and the regulatory authorities
:would take a very dim view of your activity, but it is possible. There
:were cases in the 1920s in Britain, when the Daventry transmitter 5XX
:(200 kHz) first went on-air. Using neon lamps, no rectification was
:necessary.
Last time I drove up the M1 I noticed that there were several
old farmhouses actually inside the antenna array. At that
distance I would have thought that drawing any useful amount
of power would be seen immediately as an antenna mismatch.
Walter
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James Meyer
>William Beaty wrote:
>
>> Super-regen receivers as well as AM portables have apparantly been using
>> this "energy sucking" effect all along.
>
>Super regen is just positive feedback.
Super regeneration isn't "just" positive feedback. Ordinary
regeneration is just positive feedback. Super-regen involves positive feedback
with the feedback level set to cause the detector stage to oscillate *and* a
method to apply supersonic "quenching" to periodically stop the oscillation and
then allow it to begin again.
The quenching is usually done by biasing the oscillating detector stage
to cutoff which reduces its gain to zero and then allowing the bias to slowly
bleed off. The bias can be externally supplied or it can be "self-quenching" by
virtue of the oscillation its self. Such self quenching is also known as
"squegging". As the bias drops, the gain of the stage increases until it breaks
into oscillation. Any external RF signal present at the detector reduces the
time it takes to begin oscillating.
The external RF signal is converted to a sort of PWM signal. The
oscillations start and stop with the duty cycle dependant on the strength of the
received RF signal. Since the oscillations have a much larger amplitude than
the original RF signal, they are very easy to convert back to a DC level that is
a copy of the amplitude variations of the original low level signal. The
quenching is done at a supersonic frequency so that it can be filtered out later
or simply be ignored if we're just listening to the detector as a radio.
The end result is very high gain for the detector since it is always
operating with a high level of carefully controlled positive feedback.
I'm convinced that something very similar is going on in our ears. Our
ears are very sensitive to sound levels in the nano watt range. Recent reports
have indicated that some of the "sounds" like ringing and whistling associated
with a condition known as "tinnitus" can actually be measured with sensitive
microphones as sound generated *in* the ear. I think our ears are super
regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues some
of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
frequencies.
Jim
Rick Haub
original poster, WTF? Have you ever observed, let alone taken a physics course?
Nuff said.
Anyway I was brought up on a farm and in the '60's before all the hubbub about
possible EMI biological hazards from hi tension wires a lot of farmers in our
area were paid a lot of money to let power companies run huge power lines
through there properties. In many cases the wires went close to homes and
outbuildings. Every now and again you'd hear a story of how some farmer out
twards this town or that little burg had been caught by the power company with
"coils in the ground" what happens is a farmer will get huge coils of copper and
bury them into the ground under the power lines, these lines generaly carried in
excess of 50kv. They could then apparantly send it into a portable generator
power converter (portable generaters were and still are very popular with dairy
famers) and use the resulting 120AC to power there homes and farms. The power
companies had to develop new means to dedect these "dips" in power as the lines
went over the country side.
I don't know how much of this happened or exactly how it was done since I never
met a farmer who did it but one of my Physics proffesors when I was in collage
swore up and down that it happened in the rural area that he grew up in all the
time. He even had plans and schematics on how to do it.
I'd be interested if anyone who worked or did work for any power company can
comfirm if this ever happened where they were employed.
Ing. Franz Glaser wrote:
> "Al, N2NKB" wrote:
> >
> > You have discovered one of my life-long fantasies. You can
> > set up an array of antennas, rectify the energy, and power all of your
> > house-hold appliances.
> >
> > William Beaty wrote in message <7p2rv3$acn$1...@eskinews.eskimo.com>...
> > >
> > >I finally at long last connected up two separate ideas in my mind, and
> > >figured out something about antennas which I've never encountered before.
> > >I've written it up here:
> > > ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS
> > > http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html
>
> This is robbery, of course. When I was in school, very close to
> a transmitting station, we could have flourescent lamps light
> brightly without a wall connection. It was necessary to short
> circuit the lamps at night.
> It was possible to drive our pocket radio with the energy from
> the transmitter - but of course we did listen Radio Luxembourg,
> they had much better music :-)
Roy McCammon
Mark Kinsler may want it for his collection.
James Meyer
wrote:
>I don't know how much of this happened or exactly how it was done since I never
>met a farmer who did it but one of my Physics proffesors when I was in collage
>swore up and down that it happened in the rural area that he grew up in all the
>time. He even had plans and schematics on how to do it.
This sort of story is known not as an "urban myth", but a "rural myth".
Everybody knows the story, but nobody actually did it or could tell you who they
knew that had done it.
It's like the little old lady that dried her wet pet dog in the
microwave.
Jim
Dirk Bruere
I see nobody has mentioned fractal antennas yet.
Dirk
Jan Panteltje
>regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues
>some
>of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
>frequencies.
>
> Jim
>
>
that compensates (nulls) the movement of the ear drum.
The wave form could be generated by combining all those separate frequencies,
each generated by a nerve moving a tuned 'hair' in the inner ear.
I thought about this some years agao, if would explain some things.
No proof, no experiments, no litterature, only theory of 'thougt experiment'.
?
John Woodgate
inimitably wrote:
>I see nobody has mentioned fractal antennas yet.
You just did. There is a short article on them in 'Scientific American',
July 1999, page 23, with a reference to a much longer one in the March
issue of 'Fractals'.
John Woodgate
<notj...@worldnet.att.net> inimitably wrote:
>I'm convinced that something very similar is going on in our ears. Our
>ears are very sensitive to sound levels in the nano watt range. Recent reports
>have indicated that some of the "sounds" like ringing and whistling associated
>with a condition known as "tinnitus" can actually be measured with sensitive
>regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues some
>of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
>frequencies.
That would involve a lot of nerve activity in the inner ear in the
absence of sound, which AIUI, is not observed. The ear/brain system
seems to work like this (highly simplified):
The basilar membrane in the cochlea, in the inner ear, is a form of
band-pass filter array, like a graphic equalizer. Each filter has an
'inner hair cell' at its output, which sends nerve impulses to the brain
when the filter is activated by an incoming sound. The 'gain' of the
inner hair cell is controlled by a mechanical adjustment (!) via an
'outer hair cell', which in turn is controlled by nerve impulses coming
back from the brain. This is effectively an automatic gain control loop,
with a non-linear control law, giving the normal ear its logarithmic
response.
In a damaged ear with 'sensorineural deafness', the 'gain' of the inner
hair cell and the action of the feedback loop are compromised, usually
(AIUI) due to the loss of, or damage to, hair cells. This can have three
effects:
- loss of sensitivity at some (normally the higher) frequencies, if the
inner hair cells are lost or damaged.
- loss of the logarithmic a.g.c., leading to 'recruitment' - a linear
response to sounds above a certain level, which makes apparent loudness
increase very rapidly as sound pressure increases. This may be due to
loss of the feedback signal or loss of forward gain in the loop due to
damage to the inner hair cell.
- instability of, and/or noise generation in, the feedback loop, if
something a bit more subtle happens (I don't think this is well
understood at present), leading to tinnitus and actual low-level sound
emission from the ear canal.
At least, that explanation is consistent with observations, AFAIK, but
it is certainly a simplification.
James Meyer
>>. I think our ears are super
>>regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues
>>some
>>of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
>>frequencies.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>It is also possible it is a compensation system, where a waveform is generated
>that compensates (nulls) the movement of the ear drum.
>The wave form could be generated by combining all those separate frequencies,
>each generated by a nerve moving a tuned 'hair' in the inner ear.
>I thought about this some years agao, if would explain some things.
>No proof, no experiments, no litterature, only theory of 'thougt experiment'.
>?
It's time to do some web surfing for background information. I'll post
anything "interesting" that I run across. You could do the same.
Jim
James Meyer
>
>I see nobody has mentioned fractal antennas yet.
>
>Dirk
I had just finished installing a huge shortwave log periodic beam on a
50' tower for the maritime radio shore station, WJS, at Duke University's
Oceanographic facility when a nor' easter blew through. The temporary guy ropes
stretched too far and the whole thing came down with a crash.
It might have been a fractal antenna after it hit the ground. I know
for certain it was a *fractured* antenna.
Jim
Tom MacIntyre
><37be419a...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, James Meyer
><notj...@worldnet.att.net> inimitably wrote:
>>I'm convinced that something very similar is going on in our ears. Our
>>ears are very sensitive to sound levels in the nano watt range. Recent reports
>>have indicated that some of the "sounds" like ringing and whistling associated
>>with a condition known as "tinnitus" can actually be measured with sensitive
>>microphones as sound generated *in* the ear. I think our ears are super
>>regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues some
>>of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
>>frequencies.
>
I lost ALL hearing in my left ear due to a skull fracture in
1983...there hasn't been any invasive examination, but I've been told
that the nerve was damaged, and irreversibly so. There's been no sign
of substantial facial nerve damage despite the close proximity of same
to the auditory nerve. I suffer from LOUD tinnitus 24/7. The loudness
and frequencies vary...loudness can increase due to physical exertion
and/or being in a high-dB SPL environment, and at random, which seems
to be the way frequencies vary. My equilibrium was severely affected
by this injury as well, and I think that, in the long term, such
things as concentration, memory, and mood control have suffered as
well...I look upon the ringing as a sign that my auditory center is
still alive, hopefully awaiting that magical surgical technique which
will restore my hearing. That's all now, because thinking about it and
talking about it make me more aware of it...Murphy's law, I suppose.
Tom
Science Hobbyist
notj...@worldnet.att.net (James Meyer) wrote:
> On 14 Aug 1999 04:40:03 GMT, bi...@eskimo.com (William Beaty) wrote:
>
> >can absorb light so well?
>
> light's wavelength matches one of the resonances in the electron "shell" of that
> atom.
Exactly. Because of resonance, an atom can present a relatively
enormous cross-section to incoming photons. As you say,
resonance is the key. That was a big thing with Tesla too, no?
What was missing is the fact that classical concepts have bearing
on atomic resonance. At resonance, photons can't pass by an
atom, even though the atom is hundreds of times smaller than the
wavelength of the light.
> Your revolutionary breakthru is just a lot of wishful thinking. You
> should stick to those things that you can demonstrate rather than things you
> *think* you know that ain't so.
Did you read Dr. Bohren's excellent little paper in AJP? Or
the one in the Russian physics journal? To me your response
seems rife with prejudice. You hear the word "Tesla" and you leap
to a stance of hostile disbelief? You don't need to examine any
evidence before rendering judgement? A dangerous
practice for people in science. But perhaps warranted in my case,
since I do have that enormous "weird science" section on my
website, and the pseudoscience is bound to leak out and infect
any nearby "proto-science" material! :)
All I'm saying is that resonant electromagnetic systems behave
electrically larger than non-resonant EM systems. It works for
atoms, and it works in LC circuits. It is supported in the physics
literature and I certainly wasn't the first one to wonder about such
things. It definitely is not my discovery.
"Good Science" involves verifying the references before leaping
to a stance based on beliefs and emotions. "Believers" have
trouble with gullibility, while "skeptics" have trouble with
closemindedness. A good scientist should be careful to avoid
prejudice against certain topics, *AND* to avoid believing certain
topics without evidence.
> Your excellent writeup on holograms produced with a compass on a sheet
> of plastic was a classic example of good science. This cross-fielded Tesla
> stuff is a good example of very bad psuedo-science.
I agree that the "crossed-field" stuff doesn't work. Read my
article again, and pay attention to my circuit analysis. That is
my "evidence." If you want to rebut my claims, then poke
holes in my reasoning, don't just apply disrespectful lables.
I'm not discussing crossed-field antennas. I'm saying that tiny
antennas can behave electrically "large" in the
same way that resonant atoms can behave optically opaque.
A high-Q resonant circuit is not just a bandpass filter, instead it
processes incoming energy differently than an untuned circuit.
Once the energy has built up in the circuit, we can draw off a
higher level of power than we could in an untuned circuit. This
seems highly counterintuitive to me, that's why I'm making such
a big deal about it. It makes me think "damn, Tesla was right about
this crazy stuff after all."
Hams have used tuned loop receiving antennas for decades. I
always thought that the tuning capacitor was just there to filter out
unwanted stations. On the contrary, it appears that a resonating
antenna can become "opaque" to incoming frequencies and absorb
far more energy than a simple untuned inductive pickup loop. With
a good low-noise front end this might be irrelevant. If you need
greater sensitivity, just crank up the gain. (Or replace your tiny loop
with a 1/4-wave dipole.)
But if we want to light a light bulb via an alternating electrostatic field,
then a tuned circuit can make your antenna reach out and "grab
power" from the nearby transmitter. This stuff is all entirely
conventional, and from my viewpoint as an electonics experimenter I
already knew about it. My "physicist" side just discovered what my
"electronics" side knew all along.
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>
> HA HA HA HA!
>
> Best laugh I've had today.
Watch out, I may have the last laugh!
What will happen is that everyone will realize that
this "energy sucking" stuff is entirely conventional.
It's just like sticking a resistor in a constant-current
conductor path and having the resistor get hot.
The high-ohms resistor "sucked energy" from the system,
whereas the lo-ohms wire did not. A tuned circuit
acts like a resistor, whereas an untuned circuit has
inductive or capacitive reactance only, and cannot
absorb much energy even if a resistve load is
attached to it. Simple stuff. Don't know why it
took me this long to notice it. But then, nobody else
noticed it either.
Science Hobbyist
Mark Fergerson <mferg...@home.com> wrote:
> Congratulations! You have discovered the mysterious Near Field... that
> gray area where inverse-square no longer applies. the "Bermuda Triangle"
> of Maxwell's equations.
Exactly. It is very weird in there. The impedance of free space isn't
an impedance anymore, and voltage and current can be manipulated
separatly. I never would have believed it if I didn't think it through
on my own (and if I didn't find some articles in a physics journal which
support the concept.) By adding an in-phase current to a loop
antenna, we can crank up the received power. It's very silly.
If it's real, why doesn't everyone know about it? For one thing, it only
works with short antennas. If you have a 1/4-wave dipole, you
already are presenting an enormous collection "cross section" to the
incoming waves. Whoda thunk that a little bitty antenna could do
a similar thing (if its Q-factor could be cranked up to immense values.)
> Depends where you went to school. Lots of "Physics Professors" never
> get past inclined planes and carbon paper. You obviously read a lot, so
> read more.
I've never stumbled across these ideas in any physics textbook
in my collection, but then physics textbooks don't tend to have much
EM except the very fundamental topics. This "energy sucking" thing
is much more like engineering than like physics. I don't recall
ever hearing it mentioned in my fields/waves engineering courses.
I would have remembered something this odd.
What's amazing to me is that the Bohren paper in AJP doesn't
reference an enormous number of similar papers, and also it was
published in the 1980s. Instead there is only one other paper that
discusses this topic (at least on the micro-scale version of the
phenomena.) That paper is also from the 1980s. Maybe there are
many papers in old engineering journals about this stuff.
> A looptenna generally has a core with mu much greater than unity. Are
> you trying to make a case for atoms as transformers, with electron
> orbits a single turns? Think of a nucleus as a coil core. What's its mu?
> What's the mutual coupling between two orbits in different atoms? Small
> quantities, small (not very useful) effects.
Nope, I'm seeing that a single atom is similar to a coil/capacitor
resonator. Hit it with an alternating e-field, and if you match its
resonant freq., you will pump the electrons to higher states. Or,
do the same thing with an alternating magnetic field. Or just
shine EM waves of the appropriate wavelength at it. In any case,
the atom will NOT behave as an antenna which is << the wavelength
of the radiation. Instead it will absorb far more energy than such a
tiny object has any right to do. In particle-accelerator jargon, the
photon collision cross-section of the atom is larger at resonance. The
weird part is that a macroscopic coil and capacitor ALSO has an
enlarged collision-cross-section at resonance, even if it's the photons
from the 550KHz AM band that are doing the colliding.
> You know, that sounds loopy as all hell, but the diagrams are pretty
> convincing. Might influence us "lightning antenna" addicts.
Here's something that's far loopier. WHAT IF there are some relatively
coherent vertical AC e-field modes in the earth's Shumann cavity?
Driven by thunderstorms all over the planet? As I mentioned in the
article, radios might not detect these signals if they were using loop
antennas. Perhaps these signals do not exist (meaning, the signal
strength is low compared to the broadband hash.) But if they do
exist, then a long-wire antenna connected to some sort of high-
voltage resonant circuit might be able to build up a fairly large
resonance. If this occurred, the resonator would essentially be
"storing" a high-voltage AC signal, and building it up with time.
The same thing can be done with a "Franklin Antenna" connected
to a capacitor: if you wait long enough the, tiny DC atmospheric
leakage will charge your capacitor to lethal levels. But if it's done at
AC, then something weird happens: if we draw off some of the energy
from the resonator, we can obtain an unexpectedly large power.
The amount of power received by the antenna is larger if we allow
a big AC signal to build up in the LC circuit attached to the antenna.
Maybe hang a little pickup-coil around the coil of the resonator, and
light an LED from the Earth's net AC output from lightning strikes
everywhere.
All speculation. One would need to build a tuned circuit of VERY
high Q and capable of standing off a very high voltage, and then tune
it to various frequencies down below the commercial AM band.
Science Hobbyist
notj...@worldnet.att.net (James Meyer) wrote:
> I'm convinced that something very similar is going on in our ears. Our
> ears are very sensitive to sound levels in the nano watt range. Recent reports
> have indicated that some of the "sounds" like ringing and whistling associated
> with a condition known as "tinnitus" can actually be measured with sensitive
> microphones as sound generated *in* the ear. I think our ears are super
> regenerative systems and that the annoying ringing in the ear that plagues some
> of us is simply the supersonic bias dropping down into the audible range of
> frequencies.
Dr. Thomas Gold (lately of Cornell Astrophysics) came up with the same
theory. When he presented it to hearing specialists, they refused to take it
seriously. The event is described in Gold's paper "New Ideas in Science",
http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/newidea1.html where he outlines some of the
damage that peer-review and "concensus-think" can have on science.
--
Daniel Haude
Science Hobbyist <bbe...@microscan.com> wrote
in Msg. <7paue6$crc$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
> I've never stumbled across these ideas in any physics textbook
> in my collection, but then physics textbooks don't tend to have much
> EM except the very fundamental topics.
Well, it is sort of in any comprehensive book about electrodynamics. The
problem is that these books (like "the Jackson") are written by
theoretical physicists who don't give a damn about applications.
> This "energy sucking" thing
> is much more like engineering than like physics. I don't recall
> ever hearing it mentioned in my fields/waves engineering courses.
> I would have remembered something this odd.
And the engineers just say: "Of course, a resonant circuit will draw lots
more energy from the field than an untuned one", take that as granted
(because it sounds so reasonable) and don't worry about the physics behind
it.
> What's amazing to me is that the Bohren paper in AJP doesn't
> reference an enormous number of similar papers, and also it was
> published in the 1980s.
The effect, as you say, is entirely classic and well-known. It's therefore
not subject of extensive study. The peculiar thing is that neither
physicists nor engineers draw the interesting conclusion of "tuned
circuits sucking energy from the field", although the effect certainly
exists. People know about and exploit this phenomenon, it's just that
nobody has *phrased* the consequences this way.
On the other hand the need for a very high Q precludes drawing a lot of
power from the circuit, no?
Just a few thoughts. I'm neither into RF electronics nor electrodynamics,
let alone near-field optics.
--Daniel
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Jan Panteltje
>- instability of, and/or noise generation in, the feedback loop, if
>something a bit more subtle happens (I don't think this is well
>understood at present), leading to tinnitus and actual low-level sound
>emission from the ear canal.
>
>At least, that explanation is consistent with observations, AFAIK, but
>it is certainly a simplification.
perhaps, so the hairs ARE (or at least can be) moving the fluid in the inner ear?
Jan.
Roy McCammon
> What will happen is that everyone will realize that
> this "energy sucking" stuff is entirely conventional.
> It's just like sticking a resistor in a constant-current
> conductor path and having the resistor get hot.
> The high-ohms resistor "sucked energy" from the system,
> whereas the lo-ohms wire did not. A tuned circuit
> acts like a resistor, whereas an untuned circuit has
> inductive or capacitive reactance only, and cannot
> absorb much energy even if a resistve load is
> attached to it.
Take a series R, L, C circuit. Drive it with a constant
current sinusoidally alternating source.
It will absorb the same amount of energy whether
the L and C resonate with the source or not.
Roy McCammon
> Exactly. Because of resonance, an atom can present a relatively
> enormous cross-section to incoming photons. As you say,
> resonance is the key. That was a big thing with Tesla too, no?
> What was missing is the fact that classical concepts have bearing
> on atomic resonance. At resonance, photons can't pass by an
> atom, even though the atom is hundreds of times smaller than the
> wavelength of the light.
Not sure what you are saying here, some numbers
may be useful.
Whenever you have a bunch of atoms in proximity,
they can "share" electrons so that the relevant
"size" is the atom to atom spacing rather than
the size of a single atom.
So are you speaking of isolated atoms, such as
in a low pressure gas or clumps of atoms such
as in a chunk of glass or copper wire?
Roy McCammon
> All I'm saying is that resonant electromagnetic systems behave
> electrically larger than non-resonant EM systems.
I guess I'll just have to ask; what is the electrical
size of a non-resonent EM system?
Lyle Koehler
>
>
> All speculation. One would need to build a tuned circuit of VERY
> high Q and capable of standing off a very high voltage, and then tune
> it to various frequencies down below the commercial AM band.
>
It's easy to fall into the trap of confusing voltage with power. A
high-Q tuned circuit in the presence of an RF field can deliver a high
voltage to an open circuit, but since power is E^2/R and since R is
infinite, the "captured" power is zero. As soon as you load the circuit
with a finite resistance, the Q starts to degrade. Q of a small antenna
is important because it is related to the losses in the circuit, and
therefore to the efficiency of the antenna for either transmitting or
receiving. But there is nothing magic about high Q antennas that will
allow them to suck huge amounts of energy from an RF field.
It isn't difficult to estimate how much energy can be captured with a
small, tuned loop antenna. The amount of *power* available to the
receiver is equal to the incident power density times the effective area
of the antenna. Power density in watts per square meter is given by
E^2/377 or H^2*377, where E or H represents the field intensity. To
estimate the effective area of the antenna, use the formula A(eff) =
G*(wavelength)^2/(4*PI). G is the "real" gain of the antenna, which
includes the directive gain and the efficiency. The program RJELOOP3.EXE
by Reg Edwards can be downloaded from Reg's web site at
http://www.btinternet.com/~g4fgq.regp/. RJELOOP3 includes a calculation
of the Q and the gain (in dB) relative to a full-size quarter wave
antenna. The gain in dB must of course be converted to power gain for
use in the effective area equation.
For example, a 1 meter square loop wound with 20 turns of #18 (1 mm dia)
wire has a gain of -64 dB (about 4e-7) at 200 kHz. The wavelength is
1500 meters, and the effective area is about 0.07 square meters. It's
not going to "suck" much energy from a transmitter unless the field
strength is really huge. Note that the Q didn't show up explicitly in my
calculations; losses were already taken into account in Reg's
computation of the antenna gain.
Ferrite loading of a small loop antenna can provide a very large
improvement in gain. But a ferrite loopstick of practical size will
still have very low gain. Radiation resistance of a small loop is
proportional to area squared times the square of the effective
permeability, which is typically on the order of 100 to 1000. (Ferrite
materials with bulk permeabilities above 1000 are available, but the
effective permeability is much smaller than the bulk permeability except
for very large length-to-diameter ratios). So a ferrite loaded loop can
be a million times better than an air-core loop of the same dimensions.
However, the area squared term kills you. An LF loopstick antenna wound
on a 1/2 inch diameter rod is *much* less efficient than the 1-meter
square air loop in the example above.
Yes, it's possible to capture energy from RF fields. A friend of mine
has run a little electric motor with energy captured from 50-kW AM
station WCCO, several miles away. But he uses a fairly long wire
antenna, something like 200 feet if I remember correctly.
--
Lyle, K0LR
http://www.computerpro.com/~lyle
Jim Carr
}
} I don't know how much of this happened or exactly how it was done since I never
} met a farmer who did it but one of my Physics proffesors when I was in collage
} swore up and down that it happened in the rural area that he grew up in all the
} time. He even had plans and schematics on how to do it.
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notj...@worldnet.att.net (James Meyer) writes:
>
>This sort of story is known not as an "urban myth", but a "rural myth".
>Everybody knows the story, but nobody actually did it or could tell you
>who they knew that had done it.
Well, I know someone who claims an EE friend of his did it, and
only got away with it after agreeing to cease and desist and show
the power company how he had done it in exchange for no prosecution.
Seems he had rigged a relay so that the theft (and it is theft) would
be disconnected if the meter was pulled (which is the first check the
power company did when tracking the loss). He had hidden that part
of his system really well.
>It's like the little old lady that dried her wet pet dog in the
>microwave.
More like the guy who killed a roommate's pet bird by doing so, since
we are talking about a crime rather than an accident.
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John Woodgate
'backwards' through the middle ear to the tympanum.
Science Hobbyist
Good question. Let's see. If the EM system is being
"illuminated" with propagating EM waves, and the
waves have a certain power density P/(meter^2), then
an ideal quarter-wave dipole antenna with an impedance-
matched resistive load would intercept X watts, and we could
calculate the "absorbtion cross-sectional area" of that antenna
from X/P, and if we assume that this area is circular, then the
"electrical size" of that antenna is SQRT(X/P/pi)
If we do the same for ANY antenna, we can figure out
how "large" it is electrically, and compare it to the "size"
of an ideal quarter-wavelength dipole.
Science Hobbyist
> > enormous cross-section to incoming photons. As you say,
> > resonance is the key. That was a big thing with Tesla too, no?
> > What was missing is the fact that classical concepts have bearing
> > on atomic resonance. At resonance, photons can't pass by an
> > atom, even though the atom is hundreds of times smaller than the
> > wavelength of the light.
>
> Not sure what you are saying here, some numbers
> may be useful.
>
> Whenever you have a bunch of atoms in proximity,
> they can "share" electrons so that the relevant
> "size" is the atom to atom spacing rather than
> the size of a single atom.
Yes, I was imagining individual, widely-separated Sodium
atoms in a vacuum, or the individual Chromium atoms in a
doped aluminum oxide (ruby) laser resonator.
Me too, I would like to find some numbers to apply
to this. Right now all I have is thought-experiments,
and the analyses in those two research papers.
(Isn't SCI.PHYSICS a great place? People start spitting
on an idea even before reading the references. In my
opinion, anyone who wants to "spit" on colleagues had better
check and see if their victim is 'beneath' them. If they have to
spit 'upwards', chances are that they will embarass only
themselves.)
Rather than looking at atoms, those authors looked at
IR absorbtion by particles with diameter << than the IR
wavelength. One of their examples involved surface
plasmons in metal particles, the other involved phonons
in dielectric particles. I recall that, for IR light in the
absorbtion band of the particles (i.e. at resonance,)
they calculated that the "electrical size" of the particles
was about 15 times larger than the physical size, as if
the particles were reaching out and "sucking" EM
energy from a large area around themselves. Very
weird. The authors then pointed out that this is a well-
known phenomenon in particle physics: at resonance,
the collision cross-section of a particle can be far larger
than its physical size. Another way to say it: at resonance,
the particle grows to fill the electromagnetic "near field"
volume. Obviously this only becomes significant for
particles which are << than the wavelengths being
absorbed. And when applied to circuitry, it only becomes
significant for small dipoles and loop antennas, where the
physical size of the antenna is << than the wavelength
being received.
Science Hobbyist
> > this "energy sucking" stuff is entirely conventional.
> > It's just like sticking a resistor in a constant-current
> > conductor path and having the resistor get hot.
> Take a series R, L, C circuit. Drive it with a constant
> current sinusoidally alternating source.
>
> It will absorb the same amount of energy whether
> the L and C resonate with the source or not.
Do the same for a parallel RLC circuit as shown in the
ASCII art in my "energy sucking" article. See what
happens? (Or perhaps I'm wrong about *ALL* of this
stuff, and I simply have not found my glaring error.)
--
Science Hobbyist
ha...@physnet.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 06:11:21 GMT,
> Science Hobbyist <bbe...@microscan.com> wrote
> in Msg. <7paue6$crc$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
>
> > What's amazing to me is that the Bohren paper in AJP doesn't
> > reference an enormous number of similar papers, and also it was
> > published in the 1980s.
>
> The effect, as you say, is entirely classic and well-known. It's therefore
> not subject of extensive study. The peculiar thing is that neither
> physicists nor engineers draw the interesting conclusion of "tuned
> circuits sucking energy from the field", although the effect certainly
> exists. People know about and exploit this phenomenon, it's just that
> nobody has *phrased* the consequences this way.
Right. The only reason I stumbled upon it is from reading a paper
on Tesla's Wireless Energy scheme. Skeptics state that it
cannot have worked, since you'd need an immensely long
dipole antenna hanging off your electric car or airplane. The
authors in the Tesla Symposium Proceedings paper mentioned
that resonant circuits intercept an anomalously large amount of
energy. I thought, "that's impossible!" Then I started remembering
my old niggling questions about the diameter of atoms and the
tuning capacitor on VLF loop antennas. Fortunately those authors
referenced the two physics papers, and suddenly the light bulb went
on for me.
What is REALLY UNSETTLING is the fact that Tesla's system
might have actually worked.
>
> On the other hand the need for a very high Q precludes drawing a lot of
> power from the circuit, no?
Definitely. We'd have to do the LC tuning by using a low-value
coil (less windings) and a very large capacitance. Either that
or make the coil physically large, so the inductance would go
up faster than the wire resistance. It certainly would help things
if the antenna was as large as possible (either a loop antenna
in series with the inductor, or a dipole antenna across the
capacitor.)
In the past I've heard claims from some college students that they
managed to light a small bulb by picking up energy from the 60Hz
lines in the walls of their dorm room. With an inductive pickup coil,
this is flat out impossible (unless they have kiloamperes in their
building wiring!) But now that I'm thinking in terms of resonant
systems, maybe such a thing is feasible. Use a physically large
inductor with very low series resistance, and pair it with a high
value capacitor for 60Hz resonance. I'd be suprised if this could
light up even an LED, but maybe there's something to their
claim.
--
Science Hobbyist
hwa...@netway.at (Helmut Wabnig) wrote:
> You never attended a physics class.
> No, you didn't.
> Don't lie.
Ah, a flamer. OK, flamer here's my specs:
BSEE U. of Rochester 1980
Resume at http://www.amasci.com/me.html
Science hobbyist all my life, almost exclusively
in physics.
And you, are you a bully who cruises newsgroups looking
for weak minds to attack? Watch out, some weak minds
will bite back. Are you unable to understand and refute an idea,
and so you can only attack on a personal level? Not the
characteristics of a thinking person, if you ask me. But I forgot,
this is Newsgroups, and I should expect this forum to be full of this
kind of thing. There's no way to elevate these discussions to
a civilized level, and so they decend into the depths. Very
sad.
If there is something wrong with the concepts I present,
pleas show the audience the glaring flaw you've uncovered,
then we will all benefit.
Roy McCammon
> Well, I know someone who claims an EE friend of his did it, and
> only got away with it after agreeing to cease and desist and show
> the power company how he had done it in exchange for no prosecution.
> Seems he had rigged a relay so that the theft (and it is theft) would
> be disconnected if the meter was pulled (which is the first check the
> power company did when tracking the loss). He had hidden that part
> of his system really well.
I don't know, but I suspect, that if such a device existed,
it would function mainly as a current (in the transmission
line) to voltage mutual inductance. That would mean
that the available "voltage" would be proportional to
the load that the transmission line was carrying. I'd
expect 3:1 daily variations and maybe 10:1 (or even 10:0)
annual variations. Its not impossible to deal with, but
its not as simple as just stringing some wires.
Don Kelly, are you out there?
Science Hobbyist
Lyle Koehler <ly...@mlecmn.net> wrote:
> It's easy to fall into the trap of confusing voltage with power. A
> high-Q tuned circuit in the presence of an RF field can deliver a high
> voltage to an open circuit, but since power is E^2/R and since R is
> infinite, the "captured" power is zero.
That's what I thought initially. But look at my two examples.
When I load the untuned system down to V= .707x,
I get microwatts, but when I do the same with the tuned system,
I get watts. This is extremely counterintuitive. Just by allowing
a big voltage to build up, I should *NOT* be able to draw any
more power from the antenna, right? That's an understandable
conclusion. But unless there is a big error in my reasoning, that
conclusion is wrong, and it is possible to draw far more power from a
resonant receiver than can be drawn from an inductive or a capacitve
pickup alone.
> As soon as you load the circuit
> with a finite resistance, the Q starts to degrade. Q of a small antenna
> is important because it is related to the losses in the circuit, and
> therefore to the efficiency of the antenna for either transmitting or
> receiving. But th