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Developing a small fuelless microwave thruster

paul-kocylaPaul Kocyla 01/06/2017 at 06:071 Comment

Improvement in cavity resonance after simplifying the feed antenna:

In the previous measurements I soldered a stub to the feed connector to reach lambda/4.
In this configuration, this stub is missing. The feed pin is shorter than lambda/4 and its angle is the angle of the cone wall.
There are only two peaks now, the first was also visible before, the second has a more narrow bandwidth and higher amplitude.

Probably these peaks represent two different cavity excitement modes in this frequency range.

We will track both of them in the next test session.

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willemstaal wrote 01/17/2017 at 12:40 point

what shape is your stub? is it sferical  or more the shape of a rough diamond ?  

Dispersion can be the key to more cavity exitement.  

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