I have a question:
BTW I agree not to work on antennas in a thunder storm. Had lightening hit (not
sure what it hit) about twenty years ago and the
walls in the garage (radio shack) had a very erry blue color on them that
traveled down the wall itself.
Raising my eye brows and the hair on the back of my neck to say the lest - that
was enough to convince me not to play with
lightening in any way, shape or form.
The question follows.
I know I should:
1) Turn off all equipment
2) Disconnect it from the coax at the rig.
3) then work on the antenna
Useless extra unnecessary work right?
WRONG!!
The other day I was in a hurry and didn't bother.
I have no amp.
At the time I had a TS-2000 (100W rig).
The rig was not off but was not transmitting.
I learned that the hard way also, so make sure the equipment is not
transmitting when I am working on the antenna.
(still have the burn scar from the old Navy transmitter from that lesson)
My antenna is not very high. It is a Titan Vertical (the one without the top
hat).
As I climbed the step ladder to get on the wooden patio cover to stand on while
I tightened the counter poise at the bottom, I
received a pretty good shock when I grabbed the bottom of the antenna mast to
help pull myself up onto the patio cover.
Nothing serious, just enough to startle me a cause my hand to pull back (did
not fall or anything).
Not believing what had happened I decided to (with the back of my hand) to
quickly slap at the antenna mast. Shocked again.
Then asked my son (my safety man) to go inside and turn the rig off at the
on/off switch. He did and came back to let me know.
So once again I slapped at the antenna with the back of my hand to receive yet
another shock.
This time I personally went to check his work and the rig was off, so I
unscrewed the coax from the back of the rig.
Went back to the antenna and slapped it with the back of my hand. This time now
shock.
What causes that???
73 fer nw,
Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM)
http://www.ad5vj.com/
Member CTDXCC
10X# 37210, FP#-1141
SMIRK#-5177, RARS #-149
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Al Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DO *NOT* WORK ON ANTENNAS During Rain
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> > DO *NOT* WORK ON ANTENNAS During Rain
>
> Here in the Puget Sound, that means never work on antennas!?
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