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Mswede
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 8:36 pm: | 
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My home was recently struck by lightening. I has several pieces of radio equipment that were actually blown apart. I had a 2517 base radio that wasn't hooked to AC or an antenna setting on you desk. I thought this radio would be OK because it was isolated. Now when I plug it in, the transmitter keys up and stays keyed up. I assume that some of the stray radiation got it. What can I look for to fix it? Does anyone have any ideas? |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 7:15 am: |
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Do you have home owners? If so total up all your losses and see if its worth filing a clame if so pack up the radio sand it to a factory aproved repair center.... hint coppers .... and let your insurance pay for it. |
707
| | Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 8:47 pm: |
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I got struck once and lost a bunch of stuff.(my KLM 6m amp with machined aluminum case looked like a smoking football....blew it completely apart) Most of it was bought at hamfests, etc, so no original receipts. Allstate tried to tell me that they wouldn't cover replacement costs on stuff that was too fried to fix, and if they did, it would be prorated for age of equipment. |
Funtimebob
| | Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 1:48 am: |
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Wowzers! a radio with so many problems that it ranks its own subsection! |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 2:23 pm: |
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I've had several lightning damage to radio equipment claims over the years, thur my homeowners police, never had any problems collecting, after the 250 dollar deductable of course. What you gotta watch now, most of the insurance companies have snuck in a 1000 dollar or so limit on electrical equipment, and that want cover a good computer. If your like me and have several thousand dollars worth of radio, computer, TV and other electrical stuff, an additional rider just to cover the equipment is not very expensive and might be worth it for peace of mind. Something odd, all the times i've been hit, its never come from my antenna, its either hit trees around the house, and jumps to the power lines, or comes in on the high lines on the ground/neutral side, and what it gets mostly is anything with a transformer of course. |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 8:56 pm: |
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Heh lightning stinks.
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409
| | Posted on Saturday, August 24, 2002 - 3:28 am: |
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Lightning doesn't even have to come in contact with your house or electrical system. All it has to do is be fairly close. It then sets up a magnetic field strong enough to cause induction in your equipment and make it almost self-destruct. I have seen this happen many times when equipment was un-hooked from power supplies or antennas. It's kinda like a EMP from "mother nature". |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 10:43 pm: |
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Shouldn't this have been named "lightning strikes" it seems to be the common thread. |
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