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Title: I was lucky....
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 July 2013, 20:39:07

Last night during a thunder and lightening storm.......my tv complained of no signal.....actually it was the humax box complaining.....i thought the mendips tx got hit......but this morning still the same :(

Turned out it was the mains powered aerial splitter got fried.....lucky me thinks  :)

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: MR MISTER on 23 July 2013, 20:52:29

Quote from: Taxi Driver on 23 July 2013, 20:39:07

Last night during a thunder and lightening storm.......my tv complained of no signal.....actually it was the humax box complaining.....i thought the mendips tx got hit......but this morning still the same :(

Turned out it was the mains powered aerial splitter got fried.....lucky me thinks  :)

Glad it didn't go pear shaped, Dave, which is what I hear they call you. ;D

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 July 2013, 21:02:01

Quote from: STEMO on 23 July 2013, 20:52:29

Quote from: Taxi Driver on 23 July 2013, 20:39:07

Last night during a thunder and lightening storm.......my tv complained of no signal.....actually it was the humax box complaining.....i thought the mendips tx got hit......but this morning still the same :(

Turned out it was the mains powered aerial splitter got fried.....lucky me thinks  :)

Glad it didn't go pear shaped, Dave, which is what I hear they call you. ;D

they call me the tanned hulk after my week away last week in dorset.....what they call u big nose  ;D

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: MR MISTER on 23 July 2013, 22:09:17

Quote from: Taxi Driver on 23 July 2013, 21:02:01

Quote from: STEMO on 23 July 2013, 20:52:29

Quote from: Taxi Driver on 23 July 2013, 20:39:07

Last night during a thunder and lightening storm.......my tv complained of no signal.....actually it was the humax box complaining.....i thought the mendips tx got hit......but this morning still the same :(

Turned out it was the mains powered aerial splitter got fried.....lucky me thinks  :)

Glad it didn't go pear shaped, Dave, which is what I hear they call you. ;D

they call me the tanned hulk after my week away last week in dorset.....what they call u big nose  ;D

That's twice in two nights. I'll be getting a complex about my big nose.......I mean my nose. :(

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 23 July 2013, 22:16:35

When a transmitter gets hit you loose signal for a matter of seconds, there designed to cope with it (being 100m high metal spikes things)

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: martin42 on 23 July 2013, 22:28:19

Could have been worse,could have been the garage  :-X :-X :-X

Title: Re: I was lucky....
Post by: TheBoy on 24 July 2013, 18:26:00

Quote from: Marks Hornby Scape Goat on 23 July 2013, 22:16:35

When a transmitter gets hit you loose signal for a matter of seconds, there designed to cope with it (being 100m high metal spikes things)

So thats why Oxford was off the air for months ;D

(actually, that was a fire, not a strike).