Walt asked: "Wes, what worked, finally?"
"A four-turn coil on a ceramic form, in series with a twenty micromicrofarad tuning condenser. I've been using a circular plate as a collector."
"Does it tune?"
"Nope. Funny thing, though, it won't work without a condenser in the circuit. I can use anything at all there without tuning it. But, darn it, the coil is the only one that works."
"That's slightly ridiculous. Have you reconstructed all factors?"
"Inductance, distributed capacity, and factor 'Q' are all right on the button with two more I made. Nothing dioding."
"Hm-m-m. This takes the cake. Nothing works, you say?"
"Nothing in my mind. I've tried about three hundred similar coils, and not a wiggle since. That's the only one."
Chuck Thomas said: "Wes, have you tried your tube-amplifier system ahead of it?"
"Yes, and nothing at all happens then. I don't understand that one, because we know that any kind of input power will be re-beamed as similar power. I should think that the thing will amplify the same kind of stuff. I've used a solar beam miniature with a driver-alloy dynode in it, but that doesn't work either."