[R-390] Sandy radios again?

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:08:30 -0700 (PDT)

--- Liberty Krueger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our radios didn't like the dust storms. They started
> overheating really bad
> after that, even in cool weather. We ended up
> pulling all our amps to empty
> all the sand that managed to get inside them durring
> that first sand storm.
> After that we taped up all the vents to prevent sand
> from getting in. Of
> course that means that you can't use them durring
> sand storms. They don't
> really work durring sand storms anyway because of
> static electricity
> generated by the sand. Durring the first storm, when
> we keyed the mic we
> could see the antenna light up blue from the static
> discharge on it. Man,
> that was a long strange trip. Iraq was like a whole
> different planet. It
> rains sideways there. It even rained durring some
> sand storms. Everything
> got coated with mud including anyone caught out in
> it. One time there was a
> lightning storm. The lightning jumped back and forth
> all over the place up
> in the clouds but never once struck the ground. It
> was weird man.
> 
> 
> >
> > --- Liberty Krueger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hell, drop the whole friggin ratt rig on them.
> Those
> > > stupid things are all
> > > but useless in these days of satelite phones and
> > > instant comunications. I am
> > > a former "am static jocky" thirty one charle.
> (radio
> > > teletype operator) I
> > > think they called it thirty one charle because
> there
> > > were about thirty one
> > > steps just to send a message! What a pain in the
> > > butt. We used them only
> > > once in the first desert storm, to draw enemy
> > > artillery fire! I'm not
> > > kidding. That really was our mission.
> > >+++++++++++++
> > I like my T-368F/R-390A radio station!
> >
> > What do you know about the Harris radios popping
> > finals because of the "dust storms"?
> >
> 
> 
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