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General Category => Antennas => Topic started by: gil on May 23, 2017, 03:43:14 AM

Title: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: gil on May 23, 2017, 03:43:14 AM


Gil.
Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: htfiremedic on May 23, 2017, 12:44:43 PM
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Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: gil on May 23, 2017, 01:38:43 PM
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Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTjUW83JgQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTjUW83JgQ)

Gil.
Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: K7JLJ on May 23, 2017, 07:52:36 PM
Wow!  That really drives the point home.
Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: htfiremedic on May 23, 2017, 08:42:01 PM
Holy cow!  May explain my repeater eating duplexers!


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Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: Bigguy49 on June 08, 2017, 04:59:43 PM
Have woken up to that several times when I lived in Arizona , a sand storm would blow in and it generated enough static electricity to cause that, it was common out there

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Title: Re: Do NOT Leave Your Antenna Plugged-in.
Post by: gil on June 11, 2017, 05:26:04 PM
I now use BNC caps on all my radios. They short the antenna input. That is on top of never leaving a radio plugged in.

Gil

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