Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:38:19 -0500
From: "Doug Rehman" <rehman@surveil.com>
To: "'Towertalk'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Lightning, surge protection
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An old radio tech trick: put 1/8 amp fuses in line with your telephone =
line
(one in line with each wire). The fuses will virtually always blow =
before
any equipment on the line can be damaged.
About 8 years ago, our phone line was aerial on the power poles coming =
back
to our property. One of the poles took a direct hit- it literally blew =
the
phone cable off of the pole and burned it in half. The only thing I lost =
was
the 1/8 amp fuses...
Doug
K4DDR