At 12:56 PM 3/2/98 -0800, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:
At 08:17 AM 2/28/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K)
John! You can't do that! That's putting bomb-making information on the Internet!
Its not bomb-making, its destructive testing apparatus :-)
On a slightly more serious note, I'm surprised from the excerpts of the description that the $500 of parts would generate enough joules of electrical energy induced into sensitive parts of computer equipment in some reasonable range to do a lot of damage.
Wasn't he talking about EMI, not actual frying of chips (e.g., puncturing the 100's-of-nm-thick gate oxides in MOS)? I read only the excerpt, but isn't a spark gap used for generating a broad spectrum, including fairly high frequencies (think tesla coil)? Digital circuits don't like transients in their signals. High frequency RF is invasive. Capacitors are cheap. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ---Thomas Paine