[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

[Dennis Monticelli]

OK.  My turn.

Back when I was a 15 yr old novice my antenna was a low 40M dipole.  A
large blue jay liked to crap on my center insulator making a mess of it.
One day I noticed the jay sitting astride the insulator, one foot on each
leg of the dipole.  I ran inside turned on my Viking II, loaded it to full
suds on a dummy load, switched it over to the dipole, and then pounded down
on my navy key.  I heard a single loud blood-curdling squawk and then
silence.  Did the jay fly away?  I couldn't see from my window.  I ran back
outside and found him hanging under the insulator, both feet still gripping
the wires, with feathers orthogonal to his body. Such a satisfying sight :-)

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> On 24 Mar 2016 at 18:49, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>
> > The weirdest mouse electrocution I ever saw was in an antique VT
> electronic
> > organ.This particular design ran all of the Ac and DC voltage
> requirements on
> > bare bussbars horizontally across the back. The mouse was stuck
> perfectly
> > vertical to the rails like a third rail electric train electrocution. he
> popped
> > off pretty easy, though...;)
>
> In my case, it was a small squirrel or chip-munk. It had gotten into the
> main
> cage of our mountain-top 25KW TV transmitter, had crawled directly under
> the single insulated lead from the center-tap of the HV transformer which
> was about 2" from the bottom of the cage, and had received a good jolt
> through its skull, killing it instantly.
>
> We experienced several intermittant shut-downs of the transmitter at odd
> times over the next several weeks, and couldn't figure out what was
> happening.
>
> We finally discovered the decomposing corpse which was swelling up as it
> decomposed, shorting out the lead, blowing the main breaker, the shot of HV
> would open up the corpse so that it leaked all the gas, then it would do it
> again in a few days.
>
> Since the cage had a 25 HP blower in it blowing all the heat, and the
> stink,
> out side, we never suspected it until we just happened to find it after
> finally
> doing a very diligent search inside the HV cage.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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