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Two expensive Ten-Tec transceivers blown up buy lightning strikes. Antennas switched off but not disconnected. Texas is thunderstorm-alley and subject to more tornadoes than only other USA state. Lesson sadly learned. Total antenna feed disconnect is the only safe way to get past a storm without damage.
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The title above once meant leaning back with a lighted tobacco pipe clenched in one’s jaw and just contemplating fantasy or future plans. Drug culture changed that a bit. More fantasy. I don’t do either but I do contemplate many serious things. My pipe dreams are virtual.
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My main station transceiver was figuratively vaporized in a direct lighting strike. The TenTec Omni VII. The insurance agent kept calling it “my CB radio” and I clearly told her that term annoyed me. It was clearly listed in my claim as an Amateur Radio Transceiver. Because it was 11 years old, she “devalued it” by 65% unless I replace it with the same equipment. With tax it is a $3800 radio with a new power supply. She gave me $1300.