"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.



I guess so long as you think that you're happy,
then you're happy. ;-)

cogito ergo sum

Only some 3,000 years earlier.

Gary7SLL

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


"J. Harvey" wrote in message
om...
"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?

--
Jock.

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

wrote:


"J. Harvey" wrote in message
om...
"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

On 30 Jan 2004 14:57:22 -0800, (J. Harvey) wrote:

"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. !

Considering three strikes a year on average and this is not all the
same strike, and all but the antenna and Heliax have been
inexpensive...Yup.

I've had line noise trash a computer on a sunshiny day. Lost
everything except the CPU of all things.

Computers run 24 X 7 (bout 32,000 hours run time a year) and are hard
wired together with Cat 5 cable.
No problems since going to UPSs with line conditioning.

Last Fall, this one had over 57 transfers to the UPS over 3 months
including 3 brown outs, one black out (quite a few hours), and the
rest was line noise.


I guess so long as you think that you're happy,
then you're happy. ;-)

Every thing is relative. :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Carry on then.

"Roger Halstead" wrote
Computers run 24 X 7 (bout 32,000 hours run time a year) and are hard
wired together with Cat 5 cable.
No problems since going to UPSs with line conditioning.

Last Fall, this one had over 57 transfers to the UPS over 3 months
including 3 brown outs, one black out (quite a few hours), and the
rest was line noise.

I too had at least that many momentary high line-noise and brownout shifts
to APC since Hurricane Isabel last September. But my computer runs in real
time, so it could only get 8,736 hrs in a year if I left it on all the time
:-)

Jack

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:37:24 -0500, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

"Roger Halstead" wrote
Computers run 24 X 7 (bout 32,000 hours run time a year) and are hard
wired together with Cat 5 cable.
No problems since going to UPSs with line conditioning.

Last Fall, this one had over 57 transfers to the UPS over 3 months
including 3 brown outs, one black out (quite a few hours), and the
rest was line noise.

I too had at least that many momentary high line-noise and brownout shifts
to APC since Hurricane Isabel last September. But my computer runs in real
time, so it could only get 8,736 hrs in a year if I left it on all the time

Note that was computer(s) as in plural. I have 4 :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
:-)

Jack