Re: Streamer Growth

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>


> And, the typical UWB radar actually uses a single sliding range gate that is
> swept through the range (much like a sampling head on a fast microwave
> oscilloscope)... all you need is a really fast switch (or more properly, a
> reasonably fast, but very repeatable, switch), and, as you point out, a
> stable target.
> 
> I was thinking that one might be able to approach the whole thing
> statistically... You wouldn't be able to track any one streamer on any one
> bang, but over thousands of streamers in a cloud, and over thousands of
> bangs, there might be something to be learned from the statistics.
> 

 
> You need to scrounge up an old sampling head...  The pulses could be cheaply
> generated with, hmmm, a spark gap and a small capacitor..

	Seems to me you're talking about a project that takes an awful lot more
ambition than I have.  I think trying to look at the TC discharge echo
with a motion sensor microwave unit is about as far as I can drive
myself to go.  How about you?

Ed