The author considers in this paper the jumping phenomena which take place in the variation of wave length of oscillation pr duced by means of a short wave valve oscillator, When a secondary circuit containing Lecher's parallel wires is coupled magnetically
As the length of parallel wires increases, the wave length of oscillation increases gradually lonher than the value λ
1 of the oscillator itself, but atacertainPoint l
1, it decreases suddenly down below λ
1. Continueing to increase thewires, the second sudden decrement of the wave length occurs at a point d'st-ant from l
1 by half wace length λ
1.
Such a phenomenon takes place similarly when the receiving end of the para lel wires is shorted or open with only a difference that jumping points of these cases differ by a quater wave length λ
1.
These jumping phenomena may be explained qualitatively by considering the effective impelance of the parallel wires at the sending terminals, and then by reducing it into a simple coupled circuit containing a valve oscillator, the characteristics of which have been treated entirely by many investigators.
The wave length is measured, in our experiment, by a wave meter, which is calibrated by the Lecher wire method.
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