"Jock" wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:29:19 +0000 (UTC), "Gary Peach"

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"J. Harvey" wrote in message
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"Roger Halstead"
Rarely does the system suffer damage.

...one computer...
...one PolyPhaser...
...a repeater antenna...
...a section of 5/8ths inch Heliax...
...every bit of water proofing...
...all the silver plating...
...a two meter rig...
...a barrel connector (N type)...

Geesus H. !

I saw the result of a lightening strike at Barkway on Royston Heath.
The lightening came down our waveguide without any damage but inside teh
equipemy huit it vapourised teh big circuit breaker on teh wall and left
a
hole wher it had been and chared melted wires some distance above and
below
wher the box had been mounted.

Can't think of a better place for "lightening" to strike than Barkway.

I kate it you where in eht RAF hewn all this happened?

No, Engineer (Microwave) with PYE Telecommunications
We had teh first non GPO television microwave link between Birmingham and
London.
We were trying to break teh GPO monopoly on supplying and also regulating
radio communications.
It must have worked because the GPO /BT is no longer the only supplieer.

CML building Birmingham, Meriden, Cold Ashby, Barkway, Hill Crest (Highgate,
just down teh road from the BBC station at Swains Lane)
We were contracted to ATV.
Teh Link was used to show the adverts going out in Birmingham to the
sponsors in London.

Thanks for taking the **** out of my creeping disability, It keeps a sens of
proportion for me,
console yourself that it won't last much longer and I won't be able to type
at all.

Gary7SLL