Fred, I was very glad that all my ham equipment had dummy loads connected 2 nights ago - we had a thunderstorm, and a very close lightning event. Many circuit breakers tripped, 4 computers died, and I had to replace the network router and all switches as well as the NAS storage device I use as a file server. No data was lost, but I am in "limp-along" condition until I can get the file server up and running.
The strike apparently was mostly confined to the Ethernet connection, although it took out a printer locally attached to my computer too. The network is back up and running and I am waiting for a couple of replacement computers for critical places in the network - the other two (media center and ham shack) will wait for a bit because I do not view them as critical. The bottom line is that it did not hurt any of the ham gear. 73, Don W3FPR On 8/10/2012 8:19 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > Sometimes, it seems like my "dummy load" is my best antenna. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > ______________________________________________________________ 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
