[geeks] gps on plane

Sun Jul 27 11:13:33 CDT 2003

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:36:17PM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:

> The (former) USSR fighters used to use vacuum tube radios since
> a nice EMP from a nuclear blast would fry transistors. 

That was mostly because that's all they knew how to do.  

I don't know if I believe that a tube is unaffected anyway.

I would imagine that this has been tested.

Can you find results of EMP tests online anywhere?

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