Bill, when I was active with ham radio I had one 19 foot vertical antenna on my roof, perfect lightning rod. I had a good quality grounding switch. It was a two position switch. In position one the antenna was connect to a 10 gage wire that wend directly to a ground rod. Position two the antenna was connected to my radio. I became lazy and did not want to connect and disconnect an antenna every time I wanted to use the radio. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Stephan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question
I'm really curious about this. I've heard lightning warnings from a lot of sources, and yes we do have some really spectacular storms, we Saturday morning with serious lightning, 80 mph winds then a dramatic drop in temps and snow and freezing rain. Is a wire antenna more attractive to lightning than say your barbecue grill? I'm just asking here, and fortunately I did have the radio disconnected during the storm. Bill Stephan, Kansas City MO Email: [email protected] Phone: (816)803-2469 -original message- Subject: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question From: cheetah <[email protected]> Date: 12/31/2008 10:51 hi well now you have your new radio running and your new long wire out there on the fence. remember you need to unhook that wire come spring time when ever a storm is in the area. believe me you do not want to see the lightning in your house. it is loud, smoky and tends to throw little pieces of radio or in my case computer all over the room. it majorly sucks Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links __________ NOD32 3726 (20081231) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
