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Re: Topband: U think you've got interference

To: jcjacobsen@q.com
Subject: Re: Topband: U think you've got interference
From: DAVID CUTHBERT <telegrapher9@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:47:26 -0600
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No, the military is not using tubes except for the occasional TWT high
power amplifier.

When specified for EMP military gear will take it.

Dave WX7G
On Jul 31, 2012 2:23 PM, <jcjacobsen@q.com> wrote:

>
> Darl got zapped by an EMP from the Air Force testing range............
>
> Darl: Sounds like a good case for tube type, boat anchors.......... No
> menus, no microprocessors, no solid state. After all, the military keeps
> going back to it from what I've heard. Sand storms in the Middle East
> causing static buildup and taking out the front ends of the latest and
> greatest microprocessor gear. (Sorry, I couldn't resist!! )
>
> Time for a Faraday cage around the radio room?????
>
> Good luck........ you just may need lots of it.
>
> 73 K9WN Jake
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