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Call Sign : 26-CT-4165 Posts : 33 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2021-06-26 QTH or Location : Bridlington Equipment Used : ss 6900N/tti tcb900/maxcom 4e Age : 36
Subject: UK EMP how to stop are radios from frying Sun Jun 27, 2021 8:44 pm
What would happen to are radios if we had a EMP in the uk. what parts would be fried what radios would fair better. would a surge protection extension lead stop this from happening or would that not cope with the colossal surge.? would grounding your radios make any difference.?
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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: UK EMP how to stop are radios from frying Sun Jun 27, 2021 9:33 pm
I wouldn't overly worry about it Darren.
We've had similar discussions on the forum before including a 'Carrington Event' debate.
If it helps any the following link is quite a good read and for once on the internet actually supplied with references!
https://noji.com/emp/emp.php
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Knig New Member
Call Sign : 137-CT-006 MD7KNE Posts : 37 Times Thanked : 2 Join date : 2019-10-06 QTH or Location : Isle of Man Equipment Used : Icom 7100, Pres McKinley
Subject: Re: UK EMP how to stop are radios from frying Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:00 am
You could watch Suspicious Observers on youtube, he monitors space weather each day and news on the physics side of things in space. An interesting 5-10 minutes a day into sun spots, cme's, birkland (sp) currents and lots of other stuff I don't really understand. Another one is "TamithaSkov" the space weather lady who includes mentions of what are going to be the effects to Hams in her forecasts of space weather.
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Call Sign : 26CT4113/G1HWY Posts : 458 Times Thanked : 12 Join date : 2021-05-16 QTH or Location : IO90uv Equipment Used : ICOM radios/antenna farm Age : 69
Subject: Re: UK EMP how to stop are radios from frying Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:31 am
All my gear survived all the biggest events in the last 35 years. And it also survived very near lightning events.
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