RadioBanter - View Single Post - India's power grid crashes. 370 million without electricity.

Joe from Kokomo[_2_] · July 31st 12, 01:42 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:04:18 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:37:25 -0400, dxAce
wrote:

wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT), DhiaDuit
wrote:

www.drudgereport.com Is it back on now? I Hope so.

Most of the power is back on. Too many AC units running is probable
cause. Most hospitals and many businesses have backup generators
because power is unreliable anyway.

Forecast : New Delhi, India - 94F
Jackson, MS - 100F
Detroit, MI - 86F

Currently 87 in the Tulip City.

Currently 86 down the street from BAE Systems.

Jim

On 7/30/2012 6:25 PM, wrote:

Guess there are no Watkins Johnson fans out there.

Jim

Not sure how W-J ended up under the Indian power failure topic...

....but a friend of mine (now an SK) was a major W-J collector, so I got
to play with quite a few of them.

If you are monitoring for one of the intelligence agencies, I guess they
are OK, but for ham/SWL use, I thought they were sorta OK but nothing to
write home about, especially considering the outrageous price they
command. Your mileage may vary.

For a third of the price I would much rather have a top-drawer ham
transceiver with a general coverage receiver.