Vic K2VCO wrote:

This is not a recommendation, just a data point: We had lots of problems with fungus in our KWM-2A's in SE Asia. It would grow on the chassis, and was apparently mildly conductive. Our solution was to hose them out with a plain soap solution, rinse, and let them dry in the sun. We got the portable "hoser" from the A/C maintenance guys on the flight line and the soap from the dishwasher guys in the mess halls. Kept them pretty nice. YMMV

Well, yeah, but I recall that you also said that you used to blow them up when you were tired of them.

Thermite, actually. Leaves everything molten in a puddle. In today's world, those probably would be mini-Superfund sites with the heavy metals and all. I toyed more than once with sneaking one back when we were recovered. After all, it had already been written off and didn't exist. Never did though. They still visit me in my dreams :-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www.cqp.org
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