WOW now the questions begs, do you have new menu items showing up in your
brain ? hi hi
Darl NA8W
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From: "N7DF" <n7df@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:24 AM
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Topband: you think you have interference problems
> I live in the Sacremento Mountains of southern New Mexico overlooking the
> White Sands Missile Range.
> Frequently there are weird signals from the tests being conducted there
> that impact the amateur bands but one of the most recent
> exceeded all previous events.
> I was listening on 160 late one night when a burst of noise hit my
> receiver that not only totally wiped out reception but reset all the
> menu items on my FT1000MP. Every indicator light on the front panel lit
> up and the frequency display began randomly flashing numbers.
> Then the radio shut off. At the same time my Alpha 77 linear made a loud
> buzzing noise and tripped all of its overload systems.
> After shutting everything off and disconnecting the power cords and
> antenna, I checked for lightning in the area but it was a clear, calm
> night.
> When I hooked things back up I found that I had to totally reprogram all
> the menu items on the FT1000MP but otherwise it was unharmed.
> Strangely, there were now several new menu items that I had never seen
> before and that didn't do anything.
> I did a system reset according to the instructions in the manual and they
> all disappeared.
> A few days later I discussed the event with some of the people I work with
> at the New Mexico Museum of Space history and learned what had happened.
> The Air Force Space Command at Holloman Air Force Base is experimenting
> with an Electromagnetic Pulse Generator that is intended to disable
> enemy missiles, aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). To test its
> effectiveness they had fired a burst at a UAV flying over the missile
> range.
> The burst was in the gigawatt range for only a few microseconds but
> apparently my QTH was in the line of fire since I am 4,000 feet above the
> valley.
> I can testify that their system works quite well in disrupting
> communications. I just hope they don't try it out again during the Stew
> Perry Contest.
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