Another ham buddy and I watched as an unconnected PL-259 was arcing between the center pin and the shell. The coax was connected to a CB antenna on the roof. The charge was being generated by the wind. If we hadn't seen it, we wouldn'y have believed it. We didn't touch the connector to see how big a jolt it would give - we just respected it from that point.
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Mowery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:06 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Induced RF on tower and antennas > > Has anyone ran into RF being induced in the antenna of > a tower enough to cause a shock ? > > The setup is a tower 100 feet tall. On top is a > Station master cut for the two meter band. There are > a couple of smaller antennas on the tower. About 25 > feet away is a 150 foot tower. On it are several > paging antennas of various types. Around the 100 foot > level is a 70 mhz antenna. Fellow went up the 100 > foot tower to unhook the Station master and got a > very big shock. This hapened twice to him. All the > power was cut off with the main switch in the shack > that goes to that tower at the time. There was no > weather conditions at the time that should have > induced anything such as lightning within 20 miles. > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
