*Back in 2009, I had a direct lightning hit on an antenna that was
disconnected from my K3. The path to ground was over to the telephone line,
computer, ethernet cable to another computer, RS232 cable and into the K3.
Did a fair amount of damage. Looking back, a disconnect of ALL may have
been a good ides.*
*BUT, I still don't do it. :-)*
*Jim - W4RKS*
*---------------------------------*
*>Peter Pauly* ppauly at gmail.com
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*>Thu Oct 8 09:46:37 EDT 2015*
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>I had an experience a couple weeks ago where the USB audio >chip in my
>Kenwood stopped working. Kenwood service refused to fix the >problem under
>warranty and blamed me for not unplugging every single cable >to the radio
>when not in use.
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