RE: New SSTC Topology ready for release . . . up to 30MHzoperation (tested successfully)

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Original poster: "Richard Wayne Wall" <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com> 

Dan,

The audio hiss most likely represents the "stochastic" noise phenomenon for
the audio spectrum.  Basically in stochastics, if a small signal is applied
to background white noise our ears hear the small signal much louder above
background.  Perhaps ambient background white noise is altered at 3 Mhz.

Perhaps others can better explain stochastics electronically.

RWW




 >  > Great progress Captain!  One statement you have made a couple of times
 >  > puzzles me.  That is that corona gets noticeably quieter
 >  > sounding as the
 >  > excitation frequency goes up, being hardly noticeable at 3 mHz and up.
 >
 >  > Why?  We can't hear anything past 20 kHz or so.  I am
 >  > hypothesizing that the
 >  > corona medium (air) is non-linear and we are hearing many
 >  > beat frequencies
 >  > of the difference of the fundamental and many harmonics
 >  > present in lower
 >  > frequency coronas.  The result is an approximation of white
 >  > noise - hiss.
 >
 > Yes, I'm not sure exactly why this is.  One of the plasma speaker
 > pioneers, Seigfried Klein was one of the first
 > to note that corona hiss is present up to about 3MHz.  He did this in
 > 1956.
 >
 > But, sure i'd like to know exactly why corona hiss is present up to 3MHz
 > as well.
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >  >
 >



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