Re: Phasing; was: "QUAD" Broadcasts......

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 11:24 AM 5/30/97 +0000, you wrote:

> One Saturday during a thunderstorm, the FM suddenly went off the air.  The 
>engineer at the WNAC transmitter site in Rehoboth said that lightning had 
>struck the tower and had knocked the electricity out of phase.

Either the engineer didn't know what he was talking about or he realized
that he was talking to a nontechnical type and figured he could string
buzz-words together and satisfy the listener. A lightning strike to a power
transformer (not a tower) could produce a short between the transformer
windings for the three-phase ac power. This would destroy the transformer
(which would have to be replaced) and would, of course, shut down the power.
But this explanation does fit with the engineer's statement as you reported it. 

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