[Elecraft] Your thoughts on EMP and protecting K3/K2

[Gary Smith]

Interesting question,

QST some years back had a featured article on this. The gist of it as 
I recall was an EMP from a nuclear blast 5 miles above land would 
destroy all consumer devices utilizing integrated circuits. Only 
highly protected devices as might be used by the military would be 
possibly protected. Note the ambiguity here... 

The old "all tube" gear would supposedly be un-affected. So our K3s 
in the event of such an event would be non-functioning afterward.

Get em while they're hot!

Gary
KA1J


>    With things ramping up internationally and talk
> of possibility of either nucleur strike or dirty bombs,
> what would be best way of protecting our gear? I know
> that the radios are pretty tight for keeping signals
> out and I have a very good ground system here. What
> else can be done to protect our gear. 
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Bill N4ZI
> 
> 
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