[TenTec] EMP Product Obsolescence

[Bwana Bob]

I know that your comment was tongue-in-cheek, as was my response!

				Have fun and 73,

				Bob WB2VUF

Frank Holladay wrote:
> Amazing how difficult it can be for some to recognize a tongue in cheek 
> comment!
> Frank, K4VMO
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bwana Bob" <wb2vuf at gti.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] EMP Product Obsolescence
> 
> 
>> I'm sure that he meant 1974 or 1984.  In 1874 they only had landline
>> morse telegraph.  Now during the civil war they sent up observers in
>> balloons with morse keys. Lightning would be an issue there, but not EMP.
>>
>> The first EMP incident, predating the atomic bomb was probably War of
>> the Worlds (1939?)
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bob WB2VUF
>>
>> Frank Holladay wrote:
>>> What kind of radios did you use in "1874" ???
>>> Regards,
>>> Frank, K4VMO
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Clark" <jcclark at wildblue.net>
>>> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:22 PM
>>> Subject: [TenTec] EMP Product Obsolescence
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm ex-Army Signal Corps (1874-1987.)
>>>>
>>>> On the modern battlefield EMP is a real concern and the radios were
>>>> hardened. This would included solid-state as well as the Korean War
>>>> tube type radios we had.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 73, Craig Clark, K1QX
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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