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A Method of Continuous Observation of the Equivalent Height of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. L. C. White
Affiliation:
Sidney Sussex College

Extract

A development of the “echo” method of observation of the height of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer is described. Short wave-trains of radiation lasting sec. are transmitted at regular sec. intervals, and observed stroboscopically, together with their echoes, by means of a cathode ray oscillograph. Details of the transmitting and receiving apparatus are given. The rapid fluctuation in amplitude of the echoes is easily studied by this method.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1931

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