[CQ-Contest] "Tune for maximum fun"

[PaulKB8N at aol.com]

Same story, I was about 12, had a BC-696 with a humongous power supply  
sitting on the edge of my desk.  (I used a little neon bulb to tune for max  power 
out, btw.) One day, with power on, I was moving some gear on the desk  and 
managed to nudge the power supply enough that it started to fall off the  edge of 
the desk.  I reached over and put my hand underneath it to catch  it.  Bad 
idea!  Of course, the logical thing to do was to try to grab  it with the other 
hand to help balance it.  Now I had B+ in one hand  and ground on the other!  
The shock was so powerful that I quickly let  go and watched my power supply 
fall to the carpet with a loud  thump!
 
Amazingly, the steel chassis didn't get damaged at all, the 5U4 rectifier  
popped out of its socket and landed safely on the carpet, and a surprised young  
ham learned an early lesson about safety.  
 
Paul, K5AF
 
 
In a message dated 3/18/2008 9:33:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
art.boyars at verizon.net writes:

What,  you never did anything stupid?? I was 17 years  old.




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