The florescent lamp gave it a broader bandwidth. It had to wipe out VHF AM communications.
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Vacuum tube noise source
Sep 19, 2016
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That makes sense (depending on the frequency.) PMT's give ~10ns pulses, ~ few ns edges ? (Probably spendier than the gas tube.)
George H.
Some of the jammers transmitted random microwave pulses, and the PMT was used to make those trigger pulses; it wasn't broadband noise. I use to buy the surplus random pulser modules, a shoe-box sized chassis, from Fair Radio Sales, to get the 931A. The whole thing was $5 or something like that.
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
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