[Lowfer] Rememberances or "I was a bootlegger too!"

[Ed Phillips]

    Speaking of spark-excited transmitters I should probably mention 
that in the past few months I've been experimenting with a microwave 
gadget.  Spark gap in 7/8" diameter copper pipe, driven by a solid state 
pulser.  Puts out pulses of the order of a couple of nanoseconds long at 
a rep rate of 20 kHz.  Peak pulse power appears to be of the order of a 
half watt [no average power of course] and frequency is of the order of 
8 to 12 GHz.  [All at once of course.]

Ed