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Generation and radiation of high power line harmonics

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The problems of frequency spectrum generation, radiation, and reception of signals at high power line (PL) harmonics of 50/60 Hz, and high PL harmonics caused by the use of thyristor power controllers in control circuits of large electricity consumers are discussed. The PL for frequencies of 2–8 kHz is considered a sufficiently effective traveling-wave antenna (the so-called Beverage antenna). The response of the spectrometer to a periodic sequence of PL radiation broadband pulses is discussed. The effects of a slow signal frequency drift at high PL harmonics and the occurrence of pulse components with fast frequency drift on the dynamic spectra, which in the literature is often associated with the magnetospheric trigger radiation, are considered.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Kostrov, M.E. Gushchin, A.V. Strikovskii, 2017, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 522–531.

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Kostrov, A.V., Gushchin, M.E. & Strikovskii, A.V. Generation and radiation of high power line harmonics. Geomagn. Aeron. 57, 482–490 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793217030094

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