Re: Sonic booms may have harmed refinery in North Pole

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:59:21 -0800, in alt.culture.alaska,
floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:

>jerry <GeraldCNewton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Apr 13, 11:12 am, fl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
>>> jerry <GeraldCNew...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >Remote Gate Valves are controlled through communications by microwave
>>> >radio systems. The microwave dishes are on towers
>>>
>>> That's true.
>>>
>>> >and when these
>>> >towers are moved as done with a sonic boom the signal sees a glitch
>>> >that could cause Gate Valves to malfunction.
>>>
>>> That's false.
>
>
>>So you are some kind of expert on the affects of sonic booms from F22
>
>Your claim is patently rediculous, and anyone with even
>a minimal understanding of how telecommunications
>systems work is well aware of both what a "path fade" is
>and how switching mechanisms are typically designed to
>deal with it.

Floyd I suspect the switching system was designed to work as a
fail-safe system. Did the failure of control signals defaulted to
shutdown/stop mode?


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