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

["Robert Montgomery" <RMonty3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your luck sounds as good as mine.  We have a 5 kw med. wave stinky little
a.m. station that puts spurs all over the shortwave band and have to use
filters on the receiver to eliminate the problem.   People have tried
knocking the antenna down a number of times and still in business.  And as
luck would have  it, lightning for some reason has never hit it yet.

Bob Montgomery
-----Original Message-----
From: Fabrizio Magrone <fmagrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 26, 1998 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [HCDX]: what could you do during lighting?


>At 08.03 25/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>This is sort of a no brainer. You want to disconnect your computer from
the
>>phone line as well.  All power lines and phone lines are like huge
antennas
>>and can be hit big time by lightning.
>>Bob Montgomery
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Fabrizio Magrone <fmagrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 2:26 AM
>>Subject: Re: [HCDX]: what could you do during lighting?
>>
>>>Definitely DISCONNECT *EVERYTHING* from the mains!!!
>>>Since then, when a thunderstorm approaches my area, I disconnect antennas
>>>*and* mains.  Probably this can't be an absolute protection against
direct
>>>hits, but surely will save you from nearby lightnings.
>
>Yes, I actually disconnect it too.  I leave all the receivers, computer,
>etc, connected together, but not to the external world.
>Then I cross my fingers and hope the next lightning hits that nearby
>heating system producing so much noise on all the bands. No luck so far :-(
>
>73
>
>Fabrizio
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