[R-390] Reasons NOT to Solid State a 390

Michael P. Olbrisch [email protected]
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:29:29 -0000


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> Behalf Of James Miller
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:37 PM
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> Subject: [R-390] Reasons NOT to Solid State a 390
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> 2- Resistence to EMP and Static Discharge.  During Desert 
> Storm, the high tech solid state radios would be damaged 
> by static discharge on antennas caused by sand storms. 

Yep... I was there.  My personal IC-735 took a hit exactly that 
way!  ICOM rushed me the parts, for free.  But I was still non-op
for several days.  I didn't take my R-390A over, but if I had, I
could have still been OP, running split-RX on it, since the 735
TX was just fine.

Mike.