Portadyne Princess coil puzzler - any thoughts please?

[Yorkie]

Hello David, looking at the circuit I would have thought that the two tuning coils on your mystery connections coil would have a similar number of turns and a similar resistance to the two tuned aerial coils.
The large coil could be the coupling coil and a self resonator.
What does the oscillator do?

Lawrence.

Thanks Lawrence - I'll check the aerial coil for comparison.

As to what the oscillator does, of course it doesn't! I must have been asleep at the wheel when I wrote that - it's a TRF not a superhet, so it's the reaction coil. Except that at present, it's a corpse.