[Boatanchors] Receiver Antenna Input Question

[James M. Walker]

Ah,
Terminology, there friend. First the deserts in the US don't have
sand storms like in North Africa, (what you are calling desert). Not
even close. Second forward deployment usually entails short range
comms, all of which does not matter, when in a true sand storm.

Sand storms generally (over there) last for hours at a time, and even with
all the technology at the disposal of the US military, they could not
accurately predict when one would turn up. Lots of folks started passing
along the rumour that the equipment did not operate there, that was not
the case. Most of the equipment worked, if it was ground based. Most
of the sat-comms did NOT.

Static buildup in sand storms can run as much asa few hundred kilovolts,
problem was most of the mobile electronics was NOT properly grounded
for the systems in use. However by its very nature, mobile combat does
not readily lend itself to grounding equipment.

Need to get the real story, and not the rumors, and hearsay of folks that
put one and one together and came up with three.

There is a reason it's called a communications system, and also for the
big stop read your manual sheet in the equipment list.

Jim
WB2FCN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
To: <WA5CAB at cs.com>; <jfor at quik.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Receiver Antenna Input Question


> Actually, what a good part of the problem was when they used several 
> hundred Kenwood TS-830's and T2FD B&W antennas for both phone patches 
> and some forward deployment.
> 
> It was a communications foul up as the Army has plenty of desert 
> training right in the USA plus Israel for information sources.
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
> To: <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; <jfor at quik.com>
> Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Receiver Antenna Input Question
> 
> 
>> Actually, part of what happened in '91 was that they returned a bunch 
>> of
>> RT-524's to service, temporarily.  So they were using tubes in '91.
>>
>> In a message dated 3/1/2009 8:12:55 PM Central Standard Time,
>> km1h at jeremy.mv.com writes:
>>> They found that out decades before Desert Storm. However a neon has a
>>> rather long delay before it fires if it isnt biased to a more useful
>>> voltage. SS front ends would be fried otherwise and I dont thing they
>>> were using tubes in 1991. For SS there are better choices.
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
>>
>> Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
>> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
>> MVPA 9480
>> 
> 
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