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The Smoke Blowers Net meets on 147.210 on Saturday nights at 8:30 PM every week, let's see how many can say……

OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!

Things you don't want to see in your radio room.....

    

    This is the only way to see a capacitor after it has released it's smoke......

       Here is one thing you need in your radio room at all times.

AND a quick lesson on how to use one.....        

 If all else fails and you have to let the smoke out, use this method, it works better!!!!!!!!!!

WTARS Top 5 List of Smoke Blowers

( PS. not sure you want to be listed here!!!!)

1. Bobby Thompson KI4KVA

2. Chris Brazzell KF4WNB

3. Phillip Julian KG4NVN

4. Jeremy Blankenship KI4FYQ

5. Mike Winslow KI4LMZ

                                                                   6. I haven’t burned anything completely to the chassis, but I did let the smoke out of a two week old MFJ 1270 B TNC, because my electrical outlet had no ground wire on it, and I had voltage feeding back through my computer, and through the serial cable into the TNC.  Had a nice bright flash as one of the resistors, lost its battle with the current.  Fortunately MFJ gave me a new one, and I added a ground wire to that receptacle immediately.  Hmm wonder if I should ground my HF rig?  The green wire came out of the crimp connector a few weeks back.  I remember reading something about RF safety, somewhere, lol

Dwayne AKA Crash and Burn (cab146@hotmail.com) KD4KDF

7. Randy Bennett KD4RIP - "Sparky's Lighting Strike"

8. (Space saved for next to BLOW!!)

 

(PS. We can add more to the list if needed, send your nominations to me and I will add them.)

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