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TheMoMan
BlabberMouth, a Blabber Odyssey
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posted August 18, 2012 08:56
Our power line took a hit, as in Lightning and Thunder. My weather pager had gone off other hams were setting up a weather spotter net, I was getting my web brower to the NWS Radar for our area. I checked into the net using my handheld (walkie talkie), I did not want to be connected to the antennas. FLASH FLASH BOOM boom, the lights are out. The first Flash was the actual Lightning bolt, followed by the Explosive charge in the fuse, First Boom was the thunder, the second was the explosive charge putting the second flash out.
Darkness, I mean no light, my eyes are starting to reset to this level of light, now the electrical activity in the sky is making every thing look like I am in a Disco with a strobe on. I walk to a window that allows me see the transformer up the pole, yup just as I suppected the fuse holder is open. Looking to the south I see that other houses have power, so we are the only ones out this feed that lost power. I call the automated operator and start a trouble ticket. The computer (laptop) and handheld still work. I reply to the roll call on the net and check out. About five AM the lights come back on, I pull on some clothes and go out to thank the linemen that had came and replaced the fuse.
Devices harmed The Uber accurite VFO for my transmitter, the indoor/outdoor thermometer, that is all we have found in one week.
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If it don't glow it ain't Ham Radio
Posts: 5071 | From: Just South of the Huron National Forest, in the water shed of the Rifle River | Registered: Sep 2002
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Ugh, MightyClub
BlabberMouth, the Next Generation
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posted August 21, 2012 13:17
Wow, sounds like a bad situation that could have been much worse! Glad you came out relatively unscathed.
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Ugh!
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