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I was in Afghanistan for this. A huge portion of our field radios and cryptography devices were affected by this. I want to say I remember a crystal diode havin
by kodah 6y ago
I was in Afghanistan for this. A huge portion of our field radios and cryptography devices were affected by this. I want to say I remember a crystal diode having to be replaced. These are used for timing.
Interestingly, the Marines keeps a stock of non-crystal diode radios for exactly this event. We had enough radios at the time not to need this, but cool to see this event was remembered by someone other than myself.
- graderjs 6y agoI was in Hong Kong. I think some sort of cellphone malfunction, but that was about it. I guess it would affect satellite phones too
- kodah 6y agoCorrect! I remember some of the talk at the time speculated that our elevation was particularly impactful. Also, all the radios that went bad were either live or outside. Ones in shelters were not affected.