[Elecraft] KPA1500 Cooling

[Wes]

The Phoenix Missile was cooled using Coolanol.  Insidious stuff.  Never wear a 
new pair of slacks when you might get near a Phoenix Receiver/Transmitter Unit.  
Don't ask me how I know this.

Aircraft carrier Captains hated it leaking all over their carrier decks about as 
much as AFB Generals hated SR71s leaking fuel all over their runways.  We "dried 
up" Phoenix after the Shah was overthrown and the Russians got Phoenix and we 
redesigned it to replace klystrons with IMPATTs.

And they paid us to have all this fun.

Wes  N7WS

On 7/24/2020 6:56 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> The Cray-2 computer was cooled with "Fluorinert", a 3M product which is an 
> electrically insulating, stable fluorocarbon-based fluid.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
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