[TowerTalk] fuses

[Craig Clark]

>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:38:19 -0500
>From: "Doug Rehman" <rehman at surveil.com>
>To: "'Towertalk'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Lightning, surge protection
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>An old radio tech trick: put 1/8 amp fuses in line with your telephone =
>line
>(one in line with each wire). The fuses will virtually always blow =
>before
>any equipment on the line can be damaged.
>
>About 8 years ago, our phone line was aerial on the power poles coming =
>back
>to our property. One of the poles took a direct hit- it literally blew =
>the
>phone cable off of the pole and burned it in half. The only thing I lost =
>was
>the 1/8 amp fuses...
>
>Doug
>K4DDR

I used this trick with my Beverage antennas and it didn't work. In one near 
"miss", all of the fuses blew up and the pulse vaporized the arms on all 
four of the relays.


CRAIG CLARK , K1QX
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RINDGE NH 03461
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