Re: Quench gap?

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello.

I only Know this term as "slang" of
the time when private radio amateurs used
spark gap transmitters and it describes this:
http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/quenched_gap.html

Pretty much the same as the device Antonio showed us."

   Not slang at all, but a well used term.  Made by many people for 
commercial spark transmitters.  I have an Amrad "1/2 kW" quenched 
gap, surplus from WW1 Navy transmitters.  Works very well with a 
small TC operated from a 12 kV, 60 ma transformer.  Almost no sound 
at all from the gap.  The purpose of the "quenching" was to cause the 
gap to stop conducting rapidly.

Ed