Guy's story reminds me of an experience in my teenage days when I had a tri-band, 2 element cubical quad on a 40 foot tower. I had made a crude grounding rack for the separate feedlines using nails appropriately spaced in a scrap 2x4 to hang the PL-259s, and the nails were grounded to the mains ground with some wire braid stripped from old coax. I returned home from a family vacation one summer to find the PL-259s welded to the nails. There was no sign of other damage, so there must have been a relatively gentle surge induced by lightning. I don't recommend my grounding technique (I was 14 or 15 and pretty naive about lightning-induced currents), but I still disconnect feedlines (and ground them!) religiously.
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