Hi Doug,

I have studied this application and found it to be quite consistent with Candy's previous work.

It's good to know what he's up to.  Excerpt from Claim 1: " a first period and a second period,
the first period preceding the second period;"

That's just to make sure that the second doesn't come before the first.  That's an insult to the
Examiner and it won't help his cause.

Translated into Plain English:  "the reactive transmit voltage across the coil...is maintained
approximately constantly zero with a corresponding current through the transmit coil being
non-zero = a flat-topped square current pulse, in Plain English.

The top is kept flat even when the soil characteristics change by using a feedback loop.

All this is doable, but it's unclear what possible benefit could be derived from this arrangement.

Vapor_Man

P.S. Please don't blow my cover...