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So apparently while Iw as gone for a year, like a dumbass, I forgot to physically disconnect my HF antenna. I had lightening strike at one point and friend several pieces of equipment in my EE lab.. I'm slowly trying to figure out what is and is not broken... but my 10,000$ transmitter is going to need some repair for sure.. Not too happy about any of this.
@freemo That beyond sucks. And you could spend a considerable amount of time repairing it too.
Maybe stick a lightening arrestor on your attena to limit the damage the next time you pull the old Ben Franklin trick!
@lordalveric Already have a lightning arrestor on there.
@freemo So that limited your lossess at least. Still, not pretty.
What will be real fun to deal with is if you had any arcing between the layers of your PC board.... not even sure how you'd repair that...!!!
@lordalveric usually that doesnt happen. Path of least resistance and all. Likely to be a few friend components nothing more.
@freemo It could still fry a copper trace buried in the layers. But hopefully you won't have that to contend with.
@lordalveric I've never seent hat happen in a strike before.
@freemo Just how many strikes have you dealt with? 
@lordalveric personally this is the first. But I have repaired other equipment (older) that has. Not to mention watched way mroe you tube videos onr epairing ham equipment.
@freemo Well, good luck with that.
I gave up on trying to repair my $1000 laptop that simply stopped booting one day. As in, it didn't even hit the BIOS. And this was the 2nd ASUS laptop that died this way, so I'm never buying another one.
I did get a cheap oscilloscope that works with the tablet, but it only worked with the Android tablet. iPod refuses to connect to its WiFi because it doesn't go to the Internet!!!! :(
And I dropped the Android tablet once and put a single crack in the screen. My wife dropped it many years later and totally spiderwebbed it! Well, it was old anyway... but I digress.
Yes, tons of repair and restore videos on YouTube. Some dude was trying to repair an old video board. I don't have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
@lordalveric These rigs are designed to be way easier tor epair than a laptop.. still i might jsut send this one in.
@freemo Might be worth it for a $10,000 unit. It was not worth giving the §1000 laptop to the repair center to do it -- all they wanted to do was swap the motherboard... and for that price, it was simply easier to buy a new laptop.
@freemo but maybe I'll scavenge the old broken laptop for its parts... I watched a YT video on that too!!! The display screen, for example, could be hooked up to one of my RPis.
@lordalveric good luck with that, repurposing laptop displays is a PITa last I tried.
@freemo Yikes.