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Old 08-11-2019, 11:35 AM   #1
N3EQF
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Location: Saint Cloud, FL
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Default It's Only (was) an Antenna!

I couldn't decide which thread to post this in - I'm calling it "Good News" only because it obviously could have been a lot worse.

My through-the-glass 2 meter antenna on the RV, mounted on the driver side window, never was a great antenna anyway. But it looks like it served well as a lightning arrestor. The RV is parked in a storage area here in central FL, surrounded by metal buildings. A neighboring truck cab has a big CB antenna waving far above the height of what was my 2M antenna and didn't draw a spark.

I'm hoping the scorched area on the new RV paint job will rub out. Nothing inside the RV was torched - even the old Radio Shack 2 meter rig still is receiving - haven't put it on a dummy load yet to see if it transmits.

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