High winds, like those present in tornados and hurricanes creates incredible levels of electrical energy. What you experienced is that energy. Nice camera- work Jo...
Quoting Jo Grini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not the same but anyhow... > I am lucky to be alive. After a F3F competition last weekend Helge Borchert > (German pilot) flew his Crossfire (flew nice btw..) and suddenly shouted for > > no contact. He went down far behind and while I flew a prototype Taifun my > friend Espen asked if I heard a strange sound? I could not hear anything but > > a few minutes later while I was landing I heard the sparkling sound and it > came from MY antenna on my JR 9303 radio (borrowed from Horizon hobbies for > Nats). Holy macarony it was a thunderstorm building up and it was lightning > around us. The electricity made me and my antenna a good ground object to go > > for so I landed immediately. Just after the landing a tornado formed after a > > big bang and Helge came back with his radio saying: "Modell 1 wurden > verandert..". It had gone crazy by the sparkling electricity. Crazy!!!! > Pictures: > http://www.workflow.as/jogrini/diary/804open/mc24.jpg > http://www.workflow.as/jogrini/diary/804open/tornado.jpg > http://www.workflow.as/jogrini/diary/804open/tornado2.jpg > > Tornados (atleast big enough to take some beachhouses this one) is very rare > > in Norway... > > Hilsen (Regards) Jojo > www.grini.no > > > > > > Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:31:11 -0500 > > From: Doug McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Steve Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], soaring@airage.com > > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Receiver Malfunctions after Contact with Power Lines > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:35:36PM -0500, Steve Meyer wrote: > > > > | Sound like StarWars started early out there and a phase pulse > > | with resulting EMF wave fried the sensitive components. > > > > I don't see how. If they're the power lines I'm thinking of (to your > > right when you're facing away from the road, where you fly?) they're a > > long way away -- a quarter mile? > > > > Certainly, the incident could cause a nice surge of RF noise, but I'd > > expect it to be over within a second. And I wouldn't expect it to > > damage any R/C receivers more than 100 feet away, though a momentary > > glitch during the event wouldn't surprise me. > > > > And if the RF (EMP?) created by the crash really was strong enough to > > damage R/C receivers a ways away, I'd hate to see what it could do to > > the electric company's equipment, or any subscribers on that line, > > since they'd have a much more direct route. > > > > What sounds more likely is that the power lines (or insulators, or > > something else) were damaged, and now they're emitting RF noise (as > > power lines occasionally do under the right (wrong?) conditions) that > > could be causing you problems. Of course, problems caused by that > > wouldn't be restricted to planes that were at the field at the time of > > the incident.) > > > > Were the malfunctions just glitches _during_ the crash, or did they > > show up after? What sort of malfunctions are you talking about -- not > > working at all, glitching where there was none before, etc. ? > > > > I'd hate to have to do it, but it sounds like you should call the > > electric company and let them know what happened, if you haven't done > > so already. They really should at least take a look and make sure no > > damage was done, and they should be able to determine if they're > > emitting RF noise. (I guess they might also send you a bill for the > > inspection and/or damage -- I'm not sure how that sort of thing works. > > I guess the AMA insurance would cover it, however.) > > > > | Does anyone have knowledge of whether or how such a contact > > | with power lines might generate interference which would cause > > | a receiver some distance away to fail? > > > > I can't think of any common (i.e. happens often) source of a am EMP > > stronger than a lightning strike, and I've never heard of a lightning > > strike near a house damaging any R/C receivers in it if they weren't > > plugged into a charger or something. (Now, a TV or radio with a large > > external antenna, that's a different matter.) > > > > -- > > Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented > > the light bulb. --Homer Simpson > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME > turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are > generally NOT in text format > Simon Van Leeuwen PnP Systems - The E-Harness of Choice Radius Systems Cogito Ergo Zoom RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
