Lightning damage. Lightening is what happens when you flip the switch in a dark room.
If the radio is unplugged on the ground you should not expect damage. Don't simply turn it off - UNPLUG IT. Tag it for identification. The DC/cat5 should be unplugged from anything, coiled, capped, etc. On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an Aviat radio on a tower where we took the other end of the link > down. It won't be coming back, but I don't have an immediate need to > move the link to another location. If I just power the radio down, and > leave it on the tower, do I have a potential risk to frying the radio > from lightening? > > It's DC Powered, with a Cat5 and Fiber running to it. I may at some > point in the future throw a link to another location from this tower, so > I don't want to take it down, and then possibly have to put it up > again. But I don't want it to get fried just sitting up there. > > Lightening does what it wants, but is it more attracted to things that > are running? Are powered up electronics more susceptible to damage? > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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