Some years ago we had lightning strike a nearby lamp-post. All of the 
video recorders in the street were destroyed - except mine! I assumed 
that my earthed antenna formed a Faraday screen protecting my 
property.

Mike, G3XDV
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> >On the bright side, TL084s are quite reasonably priced fuses, so
> >perhaps an IC socket would be the best investment ;-)
> 
> Heh!  Both the original part and its replacement were pulled from an
> old pcb and cost nothing.  Next time I'll use something else or
> perhaps no preamp at all as dj1zb recommends.  I had these loops for
> years on LF without a preamp but found the VLF SAQ signal a bit too
> weak here to feed directly into a soundcard.  Somehow I don't fancy
> the idea of putting protection against lightning strikes in the shack.
> 
> Bill
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