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

["Robert Montgomery" <RMonty3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?


>Hello!
>
>>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?
>
>
>Definitely DISCONNECT *EVERYTHING* from the mains!!!  A few years ago a
>lightning hit a nearby house, where they had all TV sets destroied and
>serious damages to the electrical system.  But  many TV sets in the
>neighborhood were damaged as well.
>I had disconnected all my antennas (radio and TV), but not the mains: my
>electrical system is a new one and I thought I was well protected.  Well,
>all security switches tripped instantly, but nevertheless I had a TV set
>out of three badly damaged (the other two went untouched), the power unit
>of my computer failed, and the audio amplifier IC of my NRD-535 receiver
>literally exploded with a loud bang and lots of smoke. Other receivers got
>no problems.
>I really can't understand why the sensitive high-frequency sections of the
>receiver suffered no damages while an audio chip was cracked into pieces;
>but I know I was lucky.
>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.
>
>73
>
>Fabrizio Magrone, Forli, Italy
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