Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Praise the Lord and pass the RF filters Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 20:50:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Amanda Walker Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 247, message 6 of 10 In article , morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) writes: > you could get a nasty > RF burn - and they take forever to heal (mine took over 5 times as long as > a similar soldering iron burn I got a few years ago). RF burn is nasty--I first experienced it while helping a friend adjust the impedance matcher between his ham transceiver and the long-wire antenna we had just strung. Yow! Gave me a real visceral appreciation for how a microwave oven works :-). After that I made *him* key the transceiver while *I* adjusted the matcher... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda