In article , Larry
wrote:

Oh, its transmitter uses traveling wave tubes. Both of them are also STILL
working fine after 25 years on the air!

More important: 25 years IN no air. (Loss of "vacuum" is the primary
root cause of failures) Didn't one of Edison's first primitive light
bulbs recently die after staying lit for many, many years?

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