You would have had to have been there, Tony. 1000V of 7MHz and 1000V
of 432MHz are different worlds.
On Mar 19, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Tony King - W4ZT wrote:
>
>
> R.Measures wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Bingo. The arcs I (foolishly at age 23) drew off of the half-wave
>> anode-resonator with a pencil in my 4cx250R 432MHz amplifier were
>> incredibly lengthy and strangely purplish, even though the peak
>> potential was only c. 1500v-pk. I thought -- Welcome to the wacky
>> world of UHF, Rich.
>>
>>
> <snip>
> I think we've all done foolish things! Don't you suppose that with
> your
> pencil you may have started the arc at a much shorter distance and then
> pulled the pencil away maintaining the arc in the ionized path? Of
> course that's much different than the arc starting at a distance
> impossible for the available voltage to cross initially by itself.
>
> 73, Tony W4ZT
>
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