"The Engineering Council in the UK would I expect strip someone of
their CEng status if an individual proposed such silly things."
But let's face it, the UK is becoming just about the most laughable example of
the socialist Nanny State taken to the most extreme interpretation of the
concept. I doubt if Henry V and Winston Churchill are turning in their graves
when they see modern Britain, I'm sure that they're spinning like steam
turbines.
This is the country where the Elf'n'Safety nazis (including rooms full of
overpaid, interfering, sanctimonious buffoons like the Engineering Council)
invade every aspect of our lives. I say Bollocks to the lot of them. If I
want to build an HT lead with a PL259 on the end of it, then that's what I'll
damn well do and I personally will take the risk. If I plug one end into the
6kV supply and the other into my right nostril then that's my own fault and my
own responsibility, right?
Dave G0OIL (not SK, amazingly)
--- On Mon, 13/9/10, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net> wrote:
From: Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net>
Subject: Re: [Amps] SHV connectors great, but where to find coax?
To: "'AMPS'" <amps@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, 13 September, 2010, 13:45
On 09/13/10 07:18 AM, Roger wrote:
> What we do have to remember though is we may not always be around. Some
> one other than us may end up moving things.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
Exactly.
I assume none of the people proposing using PL-259 plugs for HV are chartered
engineers. The Engineering Council in the UK would I expect strip someone of
their CEng status if an individual proposed such silly things. Even if you do
this at home, you are putting the lives of others at risk.
* Children might accidentally get into the shack and unplug a cable.
* You might have an accident, an ambulance called, and they need to remove a
cable. I expect they would switch things off before touching electrical
equipment, but would not reasonably expect a cable to be alive when powered
off,
which will happen in this case due to the time for the HV capacitors to
discharge.
There are a number of "unlikely" but probably fatal circumstances in which this
would be an issue.
Dave
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