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Taxi_Driver

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I was lucky....
« 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  :)
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MR MISTER

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Re: I was lucky....
« Reply #1 on: 23 July 2013, 20:52:29 »

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
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Taxi_Driver

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Re: I was lucky....
« Reply #2 on: 23 July 2013, 21:02:01 »

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
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MR MISTER

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Re: I was lucky....
« Reply #3 on: 23 July 2013, 22:09:17 »

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. :(
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Re: I was lucky....
« Reply #4 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)
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« Reply #5 on: 23 July 2013, 22:28:19 »

Could have been worse,could have been the garage  :-X :-X :-X
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Re: I was lucky....
« Reply #6 on: 24 July 2013, 18:26:00 »

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).
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