HIGH AND HIGHEST FREQUENCY RESEARCH AT HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700200008-3
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Iliph
Heinr
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Germany
and Highest Frequency Research at
ich Hertz Institute
DATE DISTR. 3 August 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Two departments of the .iteinrich-Hertz-Institute for Oscillation Research,
Berlin-Acilershof, 1J are engaged in high-frequency and highest frecpiency
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a) department 11, :?igh-I requetlcy Technology and Wave Propagations,
bedded by Prof. itich:rd Schachenmeier;
b) department Ill, Highest r requency Technology, headed by Dr. Helmut
Jung.
Dep.irt.nent II. is enga -ed in high-frequency technology only in :,o far as it
is r..Inired to carry out research projects assigned 'to it.. The depdxtmeat
constructs the high-frequency equipment needed for its research; it does
not engage in research on high-frequency problems as such, The main assii:n-?
rent o the depurtmerit is the study of wave propagation and related problems
a)
Study of ultra-short-gave propagation in the one to ten meter ranges
During the past f':nnths. the department has worked on a project calling
for the establishment of a measurement installation (Messtrecke) for
the study of the propagation of ultra-short waves in the above- nttOned
range and its dependency on atmospheric conditions, The measurement
line will lead from the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute via Lindenberg to a
place between Guhen and Beeskow, The receiving end has not been
selected definitely, but will be situated between these two
places,, The line will traverse the Lindenberg area because the
Lindenberg Meteorological Institute will provide the Ilei.irich-flertz-
Institute with dita on to pcrature, humidity and pressure gradients?
These d.3t , needed or the study of the influence of atmospheric
conditions on the propagation of ultra-short waves, are obtained by the
Lindenb~_,rf Institute by balloon ascents. 31 Department II has completed
he construction of a transmitter and a receiver for this purpose.
The transmitter has a power of 200 watts; it will operate in the four
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i~ ommerzt. An ins aitV.te of the German Academy of Sciences. It is
headed by prof. Otto Hac ersberg.
Comment. With the exception of this co-operation, there is no
cOnrrec ion between the lieinrick4Lertz-Institute and the Lindenberg inotitute.
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Comment. So far, the Last German Postal Service has not released any
other wave length for the Heinrich-Hertz transmissions.
Conren . The Eas-0 Ger: ,an Post has several to_iecoarrsunication
op a on, " nt; them iii--es to Moscow, p#tpingand FUcharest.
onm~; .t n Y irectov, Prof. Walter Urotrian.
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meter rani e : i.,~ i t is dxoectcd tY ,t the line rill. ,e operatirag
at t:-e c -id of June 1951 at the 1. test.
b) Iono..: rh ^re s tvd; dep irtr,ent 11 has co:,.nle t,ed con .truct.ion o" arc
io:notnhcre trans;r?itter which was begun about a year ago? / T$e
instriur.je.nt has an ir,pi.tlse power of Len k`:; it opcr_tes in t1ie
! Miz, ranee, The study is concerned with the measurement of wave
re: flc cti on uncn the 141ayer through determination of the echo
trara-r:is. i,n tir;fe and the retur' inl field strerarth; furt?herinore
-rith the ceter'mination of the absorption occurring twice when the
raver thre-ru^h the li-1ayner on t; ieir way to and return from the
=~;..ia ez The de,art: rnt has been ennaFed in the theoretical aspects
of this stu,tiyr for more than a year, but actual tra.n5missions with
the .urao fphere trans:ri.tter on ;:a reLular- basis were bei-un about two
nonths aro. The transmitter is now operating with a provisional
antenna, an .mpr:.sved antenna allowing more accur;atev a's'Ureme: ts= is
,under development, The practical a?m of this study is to acctru.-
late data for tt.-2 Postal '.erv ce , The department now collect:r
data on 3 da i:l~, oas a, cor; utr>s monthly and yearly aicra[~'S, and
acts as .., corat':.tin scr?,rice for the r'ost., 67 It is the duty o ` the
dep 3rtr:ent to i ifora'.. the 'ost al -,out the most favorable frequencies
to t=.: u ;?d in telecor:u i nications. The ionosphere transmitter is
sthe-d.l:l.ed to be uitirr.ately located in Neustrelltz where the
He:inrieh-i?ertz Institute has a branch office (kusssnstel.le); the
date of its transfer there is not yet definitely set,
c) The ;ve:i,:1:relitz r'.ussenctelle has a crew of six technicians who are
t'P..~".rimed on 1 ne.rn nFnt b'aois in receiving trarrt>r.3iSSior1s from. the
a ad 20 `'lie) of the ti? u'eau
four stand trd t.r:a:l ;rr i tr e;rs (, 10, 1"
of >tand. rds:, T,.aenty-four hours :3 day, the arriving field strength
of each of the i tr =a.ns nit ters is measured every two hem's o
d) In coinection w1' its consultintg aervi ce for the Postal authorities
on u4tra..short-weave te1eco:rm,crnic atzoasy the cep %rtment has taxer,
up aol cr observation, n ai .ly the observation of solar protubera.nces..
a.na sol ~r r cia - astronory.> Ir. May 1953, the department will have
corrr,lLted the con:trucvion of a telescope with a rirror diameter of
3 meters. .ark on solar obscrvation a:ad on solar radio-a_troIlomy
is performed in co-o-eration with the academy Observatory in P'otsdam-
.P zl.c sbterg '; the two ins ti.tutes keen each other informed or, the
results obtained and the personnel eonc?; rnnd convene
in rr r n: ar meeti.ngs to ascuss resu? ts.. Dep?trtmeri 11 is now engaged
in a study of ti',-.e tioegr,el-)e12rode. effect (harnerinn n-r annihilation
of telecommunication through overly heavy ionizatic*i caused by overly
s trcong solar rad: _at,i ,,n) a. ld u i? the emission of radio waves by the sun
(solar not seer) anti tl,e LS' i,,.tllieinc+= on p,:'edir: LIoris t'c r TF~ t ra- hoot m
wave telecornrtrrei e atii on.,
b p'irt*r?e:nt. IH is Anpaa-ed in:
a) Molecular s ectroseery in the twenty to one ern r ara a The :cork in
progress airs at t:.t p ,pcctroscoray of l: r;,e or:.;anic raol?aulas, but
it is in its very initial st+~e:e No organic molecule, has been i.n
vest's and yet? Dr',. H. Ju.n(, and Dipl. lag. Sies7bert Koefop are now
in ztuui es of the n tror'en Smao.1ecule on the bast .00 t'sa' err
pt;tlishcd in the Y,Sn
b) is a sideline, this denartrrc t is also enr..a cd in ener? r measare
:t i 3 the cm rata? c accardi ar to the poneerrmotoi?i c rnetho6; also
in fl -e z:t,udy ci' ;:rystal diode detectors.. No results nut known to
ex e:er?ts In, these f 3.elds have been obtained..
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