[Boatanchors] News story about risk of high altitude EMP

[Michael Zolno]

Brian, 

I know I always enjoy learning something new; please post the links so we can be enlightened.

TNX es vy 73

All my very best,

Mike

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> On May 2, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Brian Clarke <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I think it's high time to do some actual research into the recorded effects of an EMP, rather than all this armchair theorising. Such research might start with a literature search of the effects, eg, in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
> 
> Brian Clarke
> BE, MBA, PhD, CPEng, FIEAust
> MD, Clarke & Associates P/L
> 
> 
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> "Michael Zolno" <luv.myipad3 at me.com>
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> Re: [Boatanchors] News story about risk of high altitude EMP
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> 
> Yes and No.
> 
> My understanding of the problem is that the most susceptible items i.e. transformers, and there are a lot of them in tube gear, would fail the same way the power transformers in the mains distribution system due to the high induced voltages associated with EMP. We have enough of of time finding the correct transformers for restoration, and I know I don't have a stack of any of them (HV power, LV heater, various chokes, inter stage coupling types, audio, etc, etc, ad nauseam) stored safely away in a faraday cage t keep my tube gear on the air.
> 
> All my very best,
> 
> Mike WH6YH