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

[Zack Widup]

That's similar to Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose's millimeter-wave sources of 
the late 1800's.  He used tiny spark gaps in waveguide to generate 
mm-waves.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Ed Phillips wrote:

>   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
>
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