Re: EMP

From	jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups	uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.antenna, comp.misc
Subject	Re: EMP
Date	2015-11-20 02:43 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<a0e2ic-24m.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink)
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In rec.radio.amateur.antenna Tom <donotreply@nothere.net> wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 1:55 AM, AndyW wrote:
>> On 17/11/2015 18:30, gareth wrote:
>>> Those who were self-taught to the exclusion of sideband and sidetone
>>> are no doubt unaware that in the event of a nuclear detonation that an
>>> EMP
>>> will melt the RF amps in their RXs because of the amount of power that
>>> their antennae will pick up?
>>
>> It is not just the RF amps.
>> The EMP is a high power broadband RF pulse that will turn almost any bit
>> of wire regardless of length into an antenna and so fry any small scale
>> electronics that it attaches to.
>> Any electronics that is not in a Faraday cage is at risk if it is in a
>> high power region of the pulse.
>>
>> Andy
>>
> 
> I think the EMP damage would depend on the size of the bomb, the 
> distance from the bomb, and the type of nuclear weapon used. There are 
> enough variables here to make it difficult to estimate the threat.
> 
> I don't know, are thermonuclear weapons capable of producing a larger 
> EMP? Just guessing on the blast produced I would say they would do more 
> damage. Again, that is only a guess. Do neutron bombs produce more or 
> less EMP?

If you are close enough to a neutron bomb to experience the EMP, it is
irrelevant as you will be dead anyway.

If you really want to know about nuclear EMP, read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse


-- 
Jim Pennino

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    Re: EMP Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2015-11-17 19:16 +0000
      Re: EMP jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0000
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