[ARC5] Transistorized ARC-5 Receiver

[gordon white]

I remember talking to Aircraft Radio Corp designers back in the 1970s 
when they were designing solid-state versions of some of their equipment 
and one of them told me that while transistors were smaller and used no 
filament power, at least at that time they were not a lot better than 
tubes and blew out more easily. Recall that when a Soviet pilot defected 
to Japan with his MIG fighter, western technicians could not make up 
their minds when they looked at the tube-using electronics whether the 
Soviets were 'way behind the west or used tubes because they are less 
subject to EMP shock.


- Gordon White

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