{"id":37987,"date":"2019-05-29T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37987"},"modified":"2019-05-29T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:56:02","slug":"hamvention-highlights-the-palstar-tr-30a-emp-an-emp-hardened-hf-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/hamvention-highlights-the-palstar-tr-30a-emp-an-emp-hardened-hf-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamvention Highlights: The Palstar TR-30A EMP, an EMP-hardened HF transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each year at the Dayton Hamvention I enjoy checking out the latest radio products and services. This year (2019) I found an exceptional number of innovations and will share these in Hamvention Highlights posts. If you would like to check out 2019 Hamvention Highlights as I publish them, bookmark this tag: 2019 Hamvention Highlights<\/a><\/p>\n

And now for our first highlight…<\/p>\n

The Palstar TR-30A EMP<\/h1>\n

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I’ve long been a fan of Palstar, <\/a><\/strong>a US company known for their fine antenna tuners and the classic R30 series HF receiver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the 2013 Dayton Hamvention, Palstar showcased a prototype HF transceiver called the TR-30. I posted a note about this at the time on my ham radio blog, QRPer.com<\/a>. The TR-30 never seemed to make it to the market, but that’s not surprising considering the Elecraft KX3<\/a> and a number of other QRP transceivers were released the following year.<\/p>\n

This year when I approached the Palstar booth, I found a new prototype transceiver: the Palstar TR-30A EMP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This TR-30 iteration will, without a doubt, have a unique place in the radio market since it has been designed to withstand electromagnetic pulses (EMPs). To be clear, I know of no other transceivers on the ham radio market that are EMP hardened.<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers might recall a primer we published about how to protect your gear from EMP pulses (click here to read)<\/a>.\u00a0 I believe taking some simple precautions to protect gear from natural or man-made EMPs is simply a sound practice. In fact, I keep one complete rig stored in an EMP-proof container as described in our primer.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Palstar TR-30A EMP<\/strong> requires no external EMP shielding or special handling\/storage. It will be natively EMP-proof, even while hooked up to an antenna and without an RF ground attached.<\/p>\n

I spoke with Paul Hrivnak (N8PH), President and CEO of Palstar, at Hamvention and he shared a few details about the Palstar TR-30A EMP:<\/p>\n