[ICOM] CT-17 & MAX 232

[walnutcreek at appstate.net]

While In Combat Communications with the AF I saw a lot of static discharge from Tactical Fiber Optic Cables at night during a sand storm. The cables terminated in our facility, a later update to the cables was to upgrade the connectors to pickup the common ground at the tactical modem.  The modems were upgraded to shielded cases also.  We did that upgrade locally.
Cam
WA4JKW


------Original Mail------
From: "Bill NY9H" <ny9h at arrl.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:09:39 -0500
Subject: Re: [ICOM] CT-17 & MAX 232


At 07:07 AM 8/12/2008, you wrote:
>As a result of an disagreement with some lightning I lost my 
>CT-17... The MAX 232 chip literally lost its top!
>
>2:  The surge appears to have come in on the Verizon FIOS line.  Is 
>there anyone familiar enough with FIOS to answer a question off list for me?


I suspect the bad stuff came in elsewhere as the fiber- optic,,,, 
should not be conducting anything... copper yes, fiber  no...

any experts out there.

bill 

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