[Lowfer] Lightning and probes

[Howell, Laurence (Shanghai/Singapore)]

No - I've run the gear in most continents and sometimes not had the gumption/opportunity to shut it/discon before we had a local bang, but most of the time the coax is bonded to the apartment reinforcing/frames before it enters so acts a bit of a lose Faraday cage. More by good luck than engineering...

5109 getting more difficult to find..it has a NTE131 equiv (fm memory).

I have 5 or 6 built now, one left in every port of call, so I don't have to explain to the police/customs why I have a baby bottle with wires comingout of it...

Laurence, enroute UA3 and 9V


----- Original Message -----
From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net <lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri Jul 03 03:11:31 2009
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Lightning and probes

I wouldn't think the 2N3866 would be any more robust.  Have you had 
lightning-related output failures? 
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