Topband: Solar Flare

[Mike Waters]

Those power and telegraph lines were MANY hundreds of miles long, and
likely thousands of miles long.

I seriously doubt whether even the severest of solar storms --not even the
famed Carrington Event-- would damage anybody's 160m antenna systems
anywhere on earth. Not even a 1000'+ Beverage.

My antenna disconnects are for thunderstorms. I wouldn't bother to unplug
my 580' Beverages, even if there was a brilliant aurora dancing overhead.
They are protected by 90V GDTs, but I doubt if they would even fire.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Stan K <k8ll.ham at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a big solar flare can melt telegraph wires, overload power lines, etc,
> might it not be of concern to 160 users that have loooong Beverages, and
> many have long dipoles too, that just might pick up enough from a huge
> solar flare to do some major damage to the antenna or equipment?
>