Yeah, but you probably haven't messed with them in quite a while so it's easy to forget and mix terms. (You probably ran into a klystron or even a TWAT back then too.) so don't feel like the Lone Ranger about forgetting. I'd been away from high-power vacuum tubes (both power grid and power beam tubes) for quite a while and got drug back into them (kicking and screaming the whole way), took me a while to re-acclimate myself . . .
And speaking of killing yourself . . . it's real easy to do when messing around with those TV transmitter beam supplies. 25-kV available at up to 12-amperes output will make you a crispy critter real fast if you make a mistake. That part of dealing with klystrons I don't miss!
How about this: In my calibration lab on my first ship, we had the Cesium beam oscillator that was used in the 'flying clock' experiment. I used it to calibrate the rubidium oscillators on the submarines. And yeah, I've seen a few klystrons and vacuum tubes.
Yep. Can't go into detail but I'm familiar with both cesium beam frequency standards (last one I dealt with was an hp) and rubidium frequency standards (Tracor). Haven't had to deal with a gas maser yet though.
Here's one for you . . . most amplifiers (like the klystron) are two-port devices; they have separate input and a separate output. Ever deal with a single-port amplifier? (An amplifier, not an oscillator . . . )
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I'll bet you are the only person in the world that knows this. No one else you work with knows this. I know I wouldn't if I had that job. LOL Bully for YOU.
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Jane S 