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

[Roger Kirk <rkirk@mail1.videoserver.com>]

Ed Hennessy wrote:

I said, about WLKW-FM:

> 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.


Any possibility that the engineer meant "lightning knocked out a phase"   
(one phase [out of three] was missing) and it was interpreted as "   
knocked outta phase"?  

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