[TenTec] Count to Ten B4 Cussing Ten Tec

[Bill Sale]

I put my coax end in a fruit jar!!!
n5ii
Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richards" <jruing at ameritech.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Count to Ten B4 Cussing Ten Tec


> It is important to ground those disconnected coax cables in the shack... 
> like using the ground buss Stuart mentions... as I have seen the damage 
> an arc from the end of a disconnected coax plug can do.
> 
> For example, it happened at my friend's SW listening post.  He heard 
> thunder from an approaching storm while listening to the radio, and 
> quickly started disconnecting his radios, etc., and it struck his 
> antenna before he could finish the task -- the arc blew across his desk, 
> scorching the desk top, and into one of his radios.   He said it was 
> awesome and scary and scorched the desk, toasted the radio, and 
> adversely affected some other stuff (phone, calculator, computer, etc.) 
>  while it arced.
> 
> Seeing the aftermath, I am convinced Stuart is right... you gotta ground 
> out the loose, disconnected coax or it could arc and cause much damage 
> as if it were connected.  Although he is only an SWL, I doubt there is 
> any difference between a receiving antenna and a transmitting antenna in 
> this matter.
> 
> ------------------
> Happy Trails.
> =======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================
> 
> On 9/9/2011 21:06, Carl Moreschi wrote:
>> Another thing to remember to disconnect when a storm is coming is the
>> phone line.  I draw an imaginary circle around all my stuff on the
>> operating bench and disconnect everything that crosses that line.  This
>> makes my entire shack isolated from the outside world.
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