Stephen W. Kercel wrote: "If your antenna is actually struck by lightning, the antenna itself will most likely be destroyed, along with the coax and the rig. Also the building will suffer structural damage." ========== In the 8 years that I lived near the Gulf Coast in Texas as W5RTQ (lots of lightning there), my tower and antenna took many lightning hits with no damage to anything whatsoever. The antenna coax was always connected to the rig.
In the 29 years I've lived here in the Mojave Desert (lightning is rare here), my tower(s)/antenna(s) have been struck twice by lightning with no damage to anything whatsoever. I should mention that the towers involved had extensive buried ground radial systems made up of bare wire (I shunt feed my towers on 160/80 meters). I assume that my well-grounded towers attract lightning, but obviously that lightning is safely conducted to ground. 73, de Earl, K6SE _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
