Hear, hear. Second the motion. I have 16 cables to disconnect and do it religiously - Florida is the lightning capital of the universe. (Of course, when my K3 s/n# 699 was brand new, I didn't bother. Thank you, Gary and Elecraft, for restoring it 2 years ago.)
Monty K2DLJ > Ouch, and such a young one too! There's a message here - when Ma Nature > visits with lightning, unless you're an electrical engineer with a > perfect station configuration, the only relatively secure way to do > things is to disconnect everything. Even a relatively short length of > cable (RS-232, network, whatever) can pick up enough induced voltage > from a nearby strike to do damage. > > > 73, Pete N4ZR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
