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40MHz Spark Gap Behavior
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: 40MHz Spark Gap Behavior
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:34:26 -0500
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Approved: tesla@stic.net
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From: Edward V. Phillips [SMTP:ed@alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 2:06 PM
To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: 40MHz Spark Gap Behavior
"Terry,
I can only theorize abut your question of why the gap oscillates at 50
mHz. "
Probably no mystery at all. The leads act as resonant lines,
exactly as in some of Hertz's pioneering work with electomagnetic
waves, almost exactly 110 years ago.
A lot of his work was done at a wavelength of about 6 meters
(frequency about 50 MHz) by coincidence.
Ed