Another shocking story.  I may have told this one before, but I remember it 
like it was yesterday.

I was almost finished modifying a G E low band fm transmitter to run on AC 
power and work on 52.525 MHZ.  I was making final adjustments on the final 
tank circuit when my baby sister grab the mike and squeezed the ptt switch 
which shot 1000 volts through my thumb.  I knocked my sister across the room 
and thankfully she was not hurt.  But my thumb was smoking and when my Mom 
saw that, she fainted.

By the way, the transmitter worked great, my thumb healed up fine and the 
only bad thing that came out of that incident  was that I wasn't allowed to 
work on radios in the living room any more while I was living with my 
parents.

Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]