Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för fysik och astronomi
Abstract
The manufactured and delivered DB-Science 400 kW RF station was tested on site at FREIA during 2016. The station can successfully deliver continuous pulse-trains with a power-level up to 400 kW, however during most of the on-site measurements and testing the total combiner output power was limited to 360 kW due to unusually high G2 currents measured in one of the spare TH595 tetrode tubes used in the station. Each of the stations 200 kW tetrode based amplifier sections were mounted with TH595 tetrode tubes from Thales and tuned for optimal performance. The gain of the tetrode amplifiers were roughly 15 dB with some variation between the two amplifier sections and the overall gain was approximately 74 dB maximum. Amplitude and phase pulse variations were within the specified levels
