Re: Ball Lightning - Easier than you think . . .

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Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>

OK, Dan,
Now you've got our curiosity going!  Can you pick these guys' brains and 
get some rough sketches of a setup that would do this?
Dave

>Basically, they've created it using high power microwave sources (2-3 GHz)
>coupled to a specially designed waveguide cavity in such a way that the
>microwave energy created some sort of interference mode in the cavity to the
>point where plasma was created.  I didn't really ask about specifics as we
>had lots of radar stuff to talk about, but they said that it was so easy to
>do, that one could do even do it with an old microwave oven and some copper
>mesh.  
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