And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A tech at a place I worked was looking down a waveguide on a Mk-92 radar set and didn't realize the transmitter was on until his head started getting warm. They sent him to a hospital, but I never heard how seriously he was damaged.
Some radars had stationary beams and high average, power especially continuous wave systems. Stand in front of them, get very warm, and you will regret it. That looks like a TPS-75 like the one in my squadron. Rotates once every ten seconds. Pulsed signal. Not so much a threat to anyone's health because the energy absorbed by the body is rather low despite it being a 4 megawatt system. ~ Doctor Weasel
For a second I thought it was a new flat screen teleprompter being delivered to the White House.
ReplyDeleteThrow up.the turkey!
ReplyDeleteUnplug, count to ten, plug back in
ReplyDeleteDo NOT look at wave guide with remaining eye.
ReplyDeleteA tech at a place I worked was looking down a waveguide on a Mk-92 radar set and didn't realize the transmitter was on until his head started getting warm. They sent him to a hospital, but I never heard how seriously he was damaged.
ReplyDeleteDid he return to work? If not, there's your answer.
DeleteAt night, you can read by the glow from your nuts...
ReplyDeleteIn the 90s, I worked with some guys who had been stationed at radar sites in the 50s, 6s, and 70s. Many of them had testicular cancer. Very sad.
DeleteSome radars had stationary beams and high average, power especially continuous wave systems. Stand in front of them, get very warm, and you will regret it. That looks like a TPS-75 like the one in my squadron. Rotates once every ten seconds. Pulsed signal. Not so much a threat to anyone's health because the energy absorbed by the body is rather low despite it being a 4 megawatt system.
Delete~ Doctor Weasel
He's loading lunch MREs for the battery.
ReplyDeleteBattery? Squadron. Or at least the radar maintenance section thereof. It's an Air Force AN/TPS-75
DeleteHope he remembered the Man Aloft switch.
ReplyDeletenow he glows in the dark.
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