[Elecraft] OT: more Woodpecker pix (not birds)

[Phil Kane]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:30:57 EDT, N2EY at aol.com wrote:

>The Soviets used tubes in their electronics back then.
>because their available industrial resources couldn't
>make and support solid-state electronics of the type needed.

>They could have imported all the solid-state devices needed,
>but they decided it was more important not to become
>dependent on foreign technology.

  The reason that I heard was that tube technology was far more
  EMP-survivable than the solid-state designs of the time.

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