Re: Useless questions

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Original poster: "Paul Nicholson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>

I wonder whether you could use a security or traffic radar to
determine how quickly ionisation forms around the topload, and to
see how much of it is maintained between RF half-cycles and
between bangs.

Operating circa 10GHz, with the usual doppler output, it might be
possible to witness streamer formation down to 1nS resolution.  The
demodulated radar output could be displayed on a scope trace
alongside the topvolts waveform, in order to determine where things
are happening in relation to the RF cycle.

Radar has been used since the late 1940s to investigate the ionised
trails left by meteors, perhaps it could be applied to the study of
TC breakout?
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Paul Nicholson
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