[rescue] radio

[Roger Walkup]

dave at cca.org wrote:

> larrys at lexis-nexis.com writes:
>
> >Cool!  It's more supportable than you may initially think, and certainly
> >(as has been noted) collectable.  You may want to think about where
> >you locate it, though.  The amount of RF crap emanating from suns/ciscos/
> >whatever could be very detrimental to performance.  Get a feel for how
> >it works in another room with the antenna tossed as far away from the
> >DP equipment as you can.  If you can bring yourself to halt the boxen
> >and power off it would be even better (yeah, right :-).  RF obeys the
> >inverse square law:  moving the antenna 4X as  far away from the source
> >gets you 1/16 the strength.  You'll have some birdies from the computers,
> >but if you can get past them you'll find you have a neat toy!
> >-ls-
>
> It generates more heat than I was thinking, so if it ever ends up
> in a rack with computer gear, it will be at the top, and probably a
> few feet away from anything else.
>
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As someone who used to take care of 8 - 16 AN/SRC-20, 21s, an all tube UHF
tranceiver, I can tell you tubes = heat.  We used to have to re-tube fairly
regularly, but our radios were kept on *all* the time.

Roger