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Re: Seibt: Visualizing Standing Waves on a Resonator by Corona



Original poster: dwp <davep@xxxxxxxx>


    Has anyone ever put enough power into a RF transmission line to
actually see corona?
        not personally
        its been done many times, by accident and design,
        described in antenna texts.

That would represent a lot of peak power. VHF radar transmitter maybe.
        Doesn't take much, actually.  100W or so and an unterminated
        line

    I once tried to do something similar by placing a wave guide in a
vacuum jar and back filling with neon.  Thought it might be possible to
see standing waves and waveguide moding, but the impedance of the
ionized gas was so low as to render the experiment unworkable.  A better
experiment design might have worked.
        By allo accounts it would.
        compare to 'neon TR Switch' from earlt radar days...

        best

                dwp