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Subject: California visit
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:31:33 -0500
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From: Stefan Bishay [SMTP:stefan00@gte.net]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 5:21 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: California visit
At 13:37 6/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: Thornton, Russ #CSR2000 [SMTP:ThorntoR@rc.pafb.af.mil]
>Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 12:35 PM
>To: 'Tesla discussion Group'
>Subject: RE: California visit
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>Hi Gary,
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>>BTW: what do the "acceptance tests" consist of? Must the equipment
>>under
>>test be capable of evenly cooking a mil-standard sized cow?
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>The tests will basically demonstrate to the prime contractor that the
>transmitter will do what it was speced to do. It is a 2.5 Megawatt(can
>be driven to 5) amplifier. 139 Kvolt Klystron tube voltage. It will be
>driven into a dummy load so nothing exciting will happen unless it
>fails.
Damn! My old airborne bombing radar is only 100kw pulse. Can't even cook a
hot dog with it. How much do those big klystrons cost? And what kind of
current do they pull @ 139kv?
>> Can just anyone show up for the tests?
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>Sorry, but it will be government and prime contractor only. But I
>should be able to give more details later.
Too bad, be fun to use that as a hot dog roaster!
>Russ Thornton
>CSR 2040,
>Building 989, Rm. A1-N20
>Phone: (407) 494-6430
>Email: thorntor@rc.pafb.af.mil
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What is this large radar used for? SS or AS?
Stefan Bishay
KC7SJC
Seattle, WA
ICQ 2141646
"Hell, we all die in the end"
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