Wow, this must be a commom occurance.
I use three, 1 watt 220 ohm resistors in series for terminators.
Every summer I go out and inspect these terminating resistors of my three
beverages and they are always gone - blown to bits. There is no sign of
carbon, just wire leads hanging there. They must get a lot of induction when
lightning strikes the area.
I might try some bigger "glow bar" types if I can find them and consider the
flash tube idea too.
And to think I thought it was just bad luck all this time.
BTW, the new 3 el vertical parasitic array has qty (240), 180' long
radials now and is working really fine... very happy with it.... :-)
Just wish there was more DX activity on the band to play.
73,
Tom, K1JJ
|