[TowerTalk] Fwd: Near Field Lightning Damage

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Not wanting to encourage conspiracy theories, but hack in the 80's and 
before DOD was working on an EMP weapon (short of an atomic explosion).  
Wonder if your fishermen wandered into a test range? See 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse_.28NNEMP.29> 


73, Pete N4ZR
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On 4/19/2015 3:44 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
> This sounds very anecdotal. Yes, a near strike lightning may take out CB radios etc but that it took out digital watches make me suspicious. The are usually metal encapsulated and very immune to external field. I believe a EMP strong enough to take out a watch also will take out the person carrying that watch.
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> Depending on the grid size, a Faraday cage is useful for the EM from a lightning as the "M" will introduce back EMF in the cage which will neutralize the "M".
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> I hope the "falme" will not be too long,
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> Hans - N2JFS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
> To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, Apr 18, 2015 10:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Near Field Lightning Damage
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> Back in the 80's a tuna boat pulled into San Diego with every device on
> board
> containing a semi-conductor inoperative.  CB radio, Marine VHF,
> SSB, SONAR,
> RADAR, VHS tape player, SatNav LORAN, and on and on...  All
> the crew members
> wore digital watches which were all totally dead.
>
> One near miss by a large
> lightning stroke took out everything with solid
> state semiconductor junctions.
> The good news was they didn't have a
> spotter chopper aloft at the time
> dependent on the aircraft beacon band
> transmitter on board to find the boat
> (helipad is the roof of the pilot
> house.)  We theorized it was the EMP that
> ate everything as there was no
> evidence that the bolt hit the boat.
>
> Later
> when asked what could be done to provide an immune backup comm
> radio we told
> them a mu metal box.  A Faraday cage wouldn't stop the
> magnetic pulse.
>
> Just
> a thought in case there are any serious preppers in our midst.
>
> Patrick
> NJ5G
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