[Boatanchors] News story about risk of high altitude EMP

[Bry Carling]

It appears VK2GCE had some major misunderstanding and then got a bit cheeky. All is well.... We can still be friends with him.

Aussie, good on ya mite!

Best regards - Brian Carling
AF4K Crystals Co.
117 Sterling Pine St.
Sanford, FL 32773

Tel: +USA 321-262-5471




> On May 2, 2015, at 1:45 AM, WA5CAB--- via Boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> That was an asinine thing to write.  Vacuum tube gear IS more resistant in 
> general to EMP than is solid state.  And generally discrete circuits are 
> more resistant than IC ones.  That part of the equation has absolutely nothing 
> to do with the power grid.  An EMP would likely take out any HT made in the 
> past 40 odd years, but not, for whatever good it would do anyone, sets like 
> the BC-611 or AN/PRC-10.
> 
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
> 
> In a message dated 05/01/2015 22:00:43 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au writes: 
>> Hello Rob,
>> 
>> Where did you do your electronics studies? In journalism school?
>> 
>> I think you have confused the mains power transmission and distribution 
>> grids with the control grids in vacuum tubes.
>> 
>> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE
>> 
>> On Saturday, May 02, 2015 7:40 AM , ************************:
>> 
>> Try going here
>> 
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=the+threat+to+melt+the+electric+grid&
>> ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>> 
>> and clicking on the link to the top story in the Wall Street Journal.
>> 
>> It's about the risk of high altitude EMP.
>> 
>> I mention it here because it seems to me that vacuum tube gear may be
>> more immune to the damage of EMP than modern radio gear.
>> 
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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