Specifications
- Transmitter designation: Radiation at Stanford Model PC-349
- Klystron type: Litton L-3403 or L-5773 (two):
- 10 ft. tall, 840 lbs. and surrounded by 2,900 lbs. of magnets.
- Center Frequency: 420 MHz (adjustable from 425 to 435 MHz)
- Frequency stability: Better than 2 parts in 1011 over periods of 1 sec to 1 hr.
- Maximum instantaneous bandwidth: 2 MHz
- Maximum Peak Power at transmitter output: 2.5 kW
- Maximum Avg. Power at transmitter output: 150 kW
- Maximum beam duty cycle: 6 %
- Efficiency: 35 %
- Power supply Max. rating: 120, 000 V @ 4.4 A
- Power supply regulation: 12 % no load to full load
- Waveguide attenuation: 1 dB
- Maximum PRF: 1 kHz
- Maximum pulse length: 2.1 msec
- Minimum pulse length: 2 ТЕsec
- Beam Current Rise and Fall Time: 5 ТЕsec minimum
- Power output variation: less than 0.2 dB pulse to pulse after 15 minutes warm up
- Output pulse shape: rectangular (shaped pulses can be obtained by modulating the RF drive)
- Output power adjustability: continuously adjustable to ~20 dB
- Interpulse noise: The noise contributed by klystron beam is less than 750 K.