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Call Sign : 26CT2727 Posts : 656 Times Thanked : 54 Join date : 2019-07-08 QTH or Location : Stockport Equipment Used : Icom 7300. Icom 705, Yaesu FTM400XD and a Yaesu FT70. Age : 58
Subject: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Sun May 23, 2021 12:59 pm
Hi all,
Here is a link to CT Member “Enthusiastic Steve’s” YouTube Channel. “Enthusiastic Steve” Steve has a lot of good content on all things Radio. Always interesting and well presented.
Steve post’s regularly in the Facebook group and I have asked him to post here. However as he hasn’t I’m doing it for him, lol.
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https://www.qrz.com/db/2E0TWD
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Posts : 86 Times Thanked : 3 Join date : 2021-04-25 QTH or Location : South Australia Equipment Used : Galaxy 959, GE 3-5826A, 1/2 wave Station Master
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Mon May 24, 2021 4:14 am
HF radio, ladder antenna that's pretty cool
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3971 / 2E0LMI Posts : 1172 Times Thanked : 68 Join date : 2021-01-30 QTH or Location : Cirencester, Gloucestershire Equipment Used : Little radios, home-made antennas
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Mon May 24, 2021 7:13 am
Why has utube never recommended this channel's videos before!? Thank you for sharing.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 5803 Times Thanked : 352 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Mon May 24, 2021 9:14 am
Nice share there Paddy.
I've seen Steve's videos via the links on Facebook but good to let the forum members know about his enthusiastic work.
Paddy CT Directors
Call Sign : 26CT2727 Posts : 656 Times Thanked : 54 Join date : 2019-07-08 QTH or Location : Stockport Equipment Used : Icom 7300. Icom 705, Yaesu FTM400XD and a Yaesu FT70. Age : 58
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Mon May 24, 2021 1:57 pm
Thanks Victor,
Did you manage to see that short one he did in the storm where his antenna coax was cackling away in his car? A real eye opener.
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https://www.qrz.com/db/2E0TWD
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Call Sign : 26CT763 Posts : 4141 Times Thanked : 148 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Manchester Equipment Used : Optima, Superstar 360fm, Stalker 9fdx, President Jack Age : 50
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Mon May 24, 2021 7:01 pm
Cheers, Paddy.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 5803 Times Thanked : 352 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Tue May 25, 2021 7:43 am
I did Paddy and I hope it was an 'eye opener' for many.
That was a clear example of static electricity at work and how you can receive 'shocks' from antennas and even suffer damage to a radio without even being struck by lightning or miles from a storm!
Physicists are still arguing how lightning forms and strikes even today with most assumptions being based on Benjamin Franklin's experiments in the 1750's!!!
I'm a firm believer in the static discharge method of protection utilising lightning arrestors such as spark-gaps, gas discharge and sintered block materials, (the basis for many commercial lightning 'protection' methods).
There are however proponents of finding the thickest wire you can muster and attaching it to a copper pipe/rod half-arsed driven into the ground.
I certainly wouldn't want to be driving around in a storm with a big lightning rod, (ahem, antenna), atop my vehicle!
Unfortunately Paddy we live in such a light polluted world nowadays that many have never experienced the visual effects of such phenomena. The dancing purple/blue sparks that showered your body when undressing or putting on bed clothes at night let alone St. Elmo's fire glowing on the ends or tips of structures. Except maybe us old farts with childhood memories from that far less lit up night world.
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Paddy CT Directors
Call Sign : 26CT2727 Posts : 656 Times Thanked : 54 Join date : 2019-07-08 QTH or Location : Stockport Equipment Used : Icom 7300. Icom 705, Yaesu FTM400XD and a Yaesu FT70. Age : 58
Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” Tue May 25, 2021 11:13 am
I have to be honest Victor, I had no idea that could happen!! Thank you for the information
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https://www.qrz.com/db/2E0TWD
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Subject: Re: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve”
Yesterday at 10:47 pm by Lynton
Subject: Check out our Very own “Enthusiastic Steve” 
that's pretty cool 
