A few years back in Houston, lightening hit the 90' pine tree my full size
Carolina windom was attached to. The tree died and all the 14 gauge copperweld
vanished back to the balun and line isolators which exploded and the RG8 which
looped down to the roof was welded to the aluminum roof! The third of the
windom beyond the balun I still have, though here in west Texas the trees are
too short to use that antenna any more! In high school in 1968 my 80 mtr
dipole disappeared under similar circumstances in Ohio. That's when I learned
to always disconnect!
Buzz N5UR
On Jul 8, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
Hi All,
I forgot to mention: Toronto metal-nappers have also taken to brazenly stealing
park statues & markers that are made of bronze, too...
About a month, or two, ago, one such thief was found dead---electrocuted---at a
power sub-station site: he was in the process of attempting to hijack copper
buss bars, or ground wire, when he accidentally met his maker in that great big
scrap metal collection place up in the sky...
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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