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Subject: [TowerTalk] Disconnecting cables and lightning (questions --
From: w2up@itw.com (Barry Kutner)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:04:18 +0000
On  3 Jun 98, Dick Flanagan <dick@libelle.com> wrote:

> >...lots of other hames in the area disconnect the coax and put the end
> >in a mayonase jar.
> 
> I'm always amazed when lightning that has just bridged a one-mile air gap
> can be stopped cold by a mayonase jar.  :^)
> 
It only works with that low fat stuff. It'll repel anything!
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up@itw.com
Newtown, PA         FRC         alternate: barry@w2up.wells.com

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