Topband: U think you've got interference

DAVID CUTHBERT telegrapher9 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 13:47:26 PDT 2012


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 at 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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