[Elecraft] Re pexiglass

Fred Jensen k6dgw at foothill.net
Sun Jul 9 09:36:13 EDT 2006


Gil Stacy wrote:

 > Don't know whether this is apocryphal or not,

It is

 > but I had heard from a former USAF EW tech that the VC in Viet Nam in

 > he early days figured out how to make U.S. field superhets' LO "howl,"
 > giving away qth, causing some units to switch to TRF technology.

but I haven't heard that urban legend in a long long time.  The 
morphability of these threads under free association is truly amazing.

Connection to Elecraft:  Elecraft radios do not use TRF technology.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
3y 9m 21d in the two Vietnams and Laos (but who would count?)


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