[Lowfer] Lovely Aurora Down South

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a LOWDOWN article next spring on the 19th
century wireless telegraphy experiments of Mahlon Loomis.  Ol' doc may
have
sniffed too much nitrous oxide, 

But ......

There was a talk about Doc. few years ago at he AWA conference in
Rochester
he did use untuned kite / balloon antennas and the thought was that he
may have
been actually doing spark Transmitting. Although there isnt much info on
his apparatus
the general idea was that the  uhh natural electricity   caused a spark
when he opened
his antenna from the ground return,, setting up oscillations that were
detected
at the other site with the galvanometer.

no light dimmers to confuse things at that time

Bob  K3DJC 

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