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

[Fabrizio Magrone <fmagrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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