[Premium-Rx] USSR R155P receiver

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 01/06/2005 23:12:47 GMT Daylight Time, jmiles at pop.net  
writes:

<<3.    I expect the front end has a valve or two,  loads of old-fashioned
tuned circuits and is probably pretty bomb  proof.  Russians retained valves
in their front ends for far longer  than we did because of the vastly
superior survivability of valves to the  dreaded EMP.>>

That, and the fact that they couldn't make decent  semiconductors to
(literally) save their  lives.





Could anyone??
I can remember some very concerned articles and reports in the western  
professional and technical journals addressing this issue.
Whilst it may not quite have amounted to panic it sometimes came  across as 
pretty close with the general consensus seeming to be that our  "progress" in 
this respect had left us at a definite disadvantage when  compared to the 
Russians.
The fact that EMP was only part of the issue, and that we might all have  
been fried anyway, was not generally part of the analysis:-)
 
regards
 
Nigel
G8PZR
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