Re: [HCDX]: what could you do during lighting?

["Zacharias Liangas" <zliangas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you know  if lightning can still affect  handheld radios ( bettery operated?) 
a friend of me  said no! and for the moment  the scanner seems not  to be anyway affected 


I m happy that  the receiver LOWE did not have any problem  though the smallest antenna 3 
m which was very close to the wall) was connected  to the antenna  shadowing filter,which 
 was also connected with the LOWE  , and the  switch from the mains supply splitter (how 
you call it?power surge? )  was off ! 

Soemthing  i made afterwards.Ysetreday 15 hours afterwards, I connected  the two antennas 
 with a thin ( 0.6mm x 100 m long ) wire  to the  plumbing system which is as far as i 
know well grounded to absorb if any , static electricity.


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On 24 Nov 98, at 10:41, you  wrote:

> In a message dated 98-11-24 10:29:48 EST, you write:
> 
> << While  being on retziki  last night there were   local  strorms with nearby
> lightnings  
>  (less than 2 km) etc. though i disconnected  the antennas  from the radio  my
> father-in-
>  law advised me not to   disconnect radios and tv sets from electricity. 
>  
>  As far as i know there will be only a problem if a radio  or TV set is
> connected with its 
>  external antenna, or  shall we  disconnect  radios and TV sets  also from the
> mains? >>
> 
> 
> If lightning were to hit a power line, part of it would travel through the
> wires to your home. I definitely WOULD disconnect all radios from all
> connections: antenna, power AND grounds during storms.
> 
> I do this when I am not DXing because I live on a high hilltop, and may not be
> home during the next storm.
> 
> Nearby lightning has burned out three of my McKay-Dymek DA-100 antennas over
> the past several years (i now use a DX-1 with a "distriburtion amplifier"
> ---also known as a "multicoupler" to distribute signals to my five active HF
> radios...I believe this provides one additional stage of protection between
> the antenna and the receivers).
> It also simplifies disconnecting one lead instead of five.
> 
> Computer users often have "surge protectors" to protect the computers; why not
> protect your radios from power-line surges by disconnecting them?
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