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Hi Justin, I'd ask if you have many taller trees in the area surrounding your antenna. I have several ham radio HF wire antennas in my yard. I am surrounded by trees in the 40 to 60 ft height range. My antennas are up maybe 30 feet. In 20+ years at my current location I have never had a direct lightning strike (knock on wood) and only once a strike across the street induced enough voltage to blow out the diodes in my SWR bridge connected to the antenna. 73, Zack (W9SZ) On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Justin Solonynka <jsol...@comcast.net> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from > this list > > If this is totally against the rules for me to ask a newbie question here, > I apologize and please ignore. > > I just got interested in Numbers Stations (as a math teacher, I love > numbers and codes, and when I played some recordings I found online for my > students, they were totally creeped out - which was a bonus). > > I got myself a Tecsun PL-600. I'll be really excited if I ever get to > hear a Numbers Station live -- at this point I'm just interested in hearing > stations from around the world, and particularly folk music of other > countries. > > The Tecsun PL-600 came with an antenna, maybe 20 feet long(?). My office > is on the second floor of my house. I've run the antenna out my window and > attached it to a tree, diagonally from my house. > > My incredibly newbie question is: Do I need to worry about lightning? As > long as I keep the antenna unplugged from the radio during a lightning > storm, will I be OK? Obviously I haven't done anything to "ground" my > antenna, but all it amounts to is a wire running from my window to a tree, > about 12 feet off the ground. There are much taller trees all around the > house. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Justin > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
