[Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack

[Don Wilhelm]

Fred,

I was very glad that all my ham equipment had dummy loads connected 2 
nights ago - we had a thunderstorm, and a very close lightning event.  
Many circuit breakers tripped, 4 computers died, and I had to replace 
the network router and all switches as well as the NAS storage device I 
use as a file server.  No data was lost, but I am in "limp-along" 
condition until I can get the file server up and running.

The strike apparently was mostly confined to the Ethernet connection, 
although it took out a printer locally attached to my computer too.

The network is back up and running and I am waiting for a couple of 
replacement computers for critical places in the network - the other two 
(media center and ham shack) will wait for a bit because I do not view 
them as critical.

The bottom line is that it did not hurt any of the ham gear.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/10/2012 8:19 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> Sometimes, it seems like my "dummy load" is my best antenna.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
>