[R-390] EMP

[mikea]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:28:03PM -0400, rbethman wrote:
> Hello Sam,
> 
> I knew about the trestle and he efforts devoted there.  I didn't know if 
> it was still being "kept" info though.  I couldn't believe it when I 
> first saw it.  A HUGE wood deck sort of off the peak of a very large 
> hill.  There sat a B-52.
> 
> I knew the research finally succeeded.  Another "LAB" had been working 
> over on this side of the country.  It was hilarious, as the Military 
> quarters were toward the front of the complex, the entire testing area 
> was a fair bit behind.  Gave those folks a "place" to do this without 
> having to use another or create another facility.  They were testing the 
> M1A1 Abrams.  Then they used our operations training facility to set up 
> and test EMP "filters" to take the pulse off the power input from the grid.

The Kirtland facility used Marx generators with caps and insulators of
enormous size. I saw pics of a capacitor about the size of my big desk,
with arc tracks from one end to the other. I imagine the QRM would have
shown up on any R-390 in New Mexico -- whether or not it was switched on.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin