On 2021-01-27 21:11:-0500, Mitch Johnson via Elecraft wrote: >This is more of an amusing story than a warning. Me and my wife were doing >some radio stuff on the KX2 a while back. We were playing with the AX-1 whip >antenna, not literally playing with it, actual Ham radio stuff. Anyway, just >as my wife was transmitting the antenna fell over, my quick cat-like reflex >reached out and grabbed that antenna so it wouldn’t fall over, the equally >quick cat-like reflex let go of the antenna and let it fall over when I >received a bit of a shock.
I have seen 5W cook unshielded electronics from a meter away. This is just another example of why I don't TX with the antenna near my head. The E-field does fall off quickly, but that is not zero, and as you see from the shock, at the antenna it is fairly strong, even at 10W. ~R~ 72/73 de Rich NE1EE The Dusty Key On the banks of the Piscataqua ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
