Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing

[David Honig]

At 12:56 PM 3/2/98 -0800, bill.stewart at 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 at otc.net                  Intaanetto Jigyoubu

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is
always a vice." ---Thomas Paine