[R-390] Off topic?

Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:50:55 -0600

I wonder if your sand-state equipment were to be destroyed by such an EMP event, would your tube-based gear be the first thing on your mind?

Barry - N4BUQ

-----Original Message-----
From: mikea [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:39 PM
To: R-390 (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [R-390] Off topic?

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:16:30PM -0500, AI2Q Alex wrote:
> 
> Maybe it's off topic, but then again, given the fact that this list is
> populated by RF communicators, and communications will prove useful as
> events unfold, where is the discussion about what we can do to help when
> terrorists strike again (and most experts agree that they will). In
> particular, doesn't it behoove us to consider how weapons of mass
> destruction such as crude nuclear bombs that can cause EMP (to destroy
> radios) impacts owners of EMP-resistant tube-type equipment?

I would be much happier if this question never came to the test.
I suspect that we would:

a)		Be very popular; or
b)		Find our tube rigs suddenly in use by whatever gov't 
		happened to survive; or (a remote chance, I hope)
c)		Find that someone else took the rig(s) by force.

A worrisome corollary question is where to get replacement tubes
under these circumstances. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
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Tired old sysadmin since 1964
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