[R-390] TUBES

[mikea]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:39:21PM -0500, Mike Melland wrote:

>                                 ...  Interestingly he was 
> in the Gulf and actually had to request R-390A's be sent 
> there from Germany.  Apparent;ly according to him some of 
> their sofisticated receivers had trouble with static 
> damage due to charges from all the blowing sand ??? I 
> don't know if he's kidding me or not on that..... but he 
> sure is familiar with the R-390A for a guy that entered 
> service probably in the late 1970's or early 80's. 

I think he's _not_ kidding, based on the word I've got from some
troops who were there. You'd think that W-J and the other premium
military manufacturers would stick a 1 Meg resistor between the
antenna connector center pin and ground. I guess that's just too 
easy and makes too much sense.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964