…and no paperwork involved in “referring the matter”
Jim AA5BW
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: LF: lightning strike
(Lurking here :-) Very interesting videos, but why would anyone hang a cable between two blocks of flats?
Maybe a boy in one wanted his own telephone line to a girl in the other, or something like that.
...when I was a kid we lived on the fifth floor of such a block: http://maps.google.de/maps?ll=49.584244,10.989863&z=18 . Never managed to hear anything on mediumwave with my "Radiomann" AA119 detector set - indoor antenna, surrounded by reinforced concrete. Now I wish I had tried to string a wire to the neighbouring block.
Reminds me of the time, some decades ago, when I was working in a London hospital; one of the electricians could get away with anything, but when he strung a cable between the tower of labs and his workshop, he could see no problem so I had to refer the matter to a senior power to get it removed
- Julian, G3TFR
... so it was that "Senior Power" who sent a lightning bolt, which then vaporized the wire?
