I"m still here keeping the list gears oiled. Terry's still around but not
active on the list. There are now several moderators, Gary, Jim, and
Dave. The team approach seems to work better as it allows for vacations and
reduces burnout. Amazing that it's been like 24 years since the list started,
isn't it?
Chip
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Troy wrote:
Is this not "Chip's list" any more? I joined around 1997 when I was 15 or so.
I remember Chip ran the list and Terry was the moderator. What happened to
Chip and Terry?
I joined shortly after building my first VDG, while I was planning to build
my first TC. My first TC used a single OBIT and was a rough affair but I got
a few inches of streamers from it. By the time I was 16 I build a 4" diameter
coil powered by 4 OBITS and got 3' streamers... But school and life and
university got in the way... at some point I dropped off the list and lived
mostly in small apartments so I couldn't have my fun stuff until I bought my
first house in about 2005. I build a very small coil there. I've looked at
the list off and on since then but I just don't have time anymore. I've moved
overseas from Canada to the UK since and although I played with a few more
small coils in the past few years I haven't had the room to have a TC again
until recently. Last year I moved into a house in the Kent countryside with a
proper 2 car garage to turn into a workshop. I'm planning to have a real
ground rod put in at some point and finally look into the DRSSTC thing that
eveyrone is talking about ;).? Back in the 90's the big rage that I remember
was OLTCs... They seemed to die quickly but I think they're the
great-grandfathers of DRSSTCs.