I've never experienced this before a year or so ago, when I had a Beverage antenna melt in two from a nearby tree getting hit. About a month ago I had about 300 feet of a Beverage just vanish from a
Hi Tom, Are you sure you weren't the victim of "...copper nappers", possibly...?! There was a report in a Toronto paper the other day where some cell tower used by emergency forces of some kind in th
Hi All, I forgot to mention: Toronto metal-nappers have also taken to brazenly stealing park statues & markers that are made of bronze, too... About a month, or two, ago, one such thief was found dea
In 1972 I was living in a basement apartment in Dearborn, Michigan. The landlady was very kind, and allowed a 67 foot dipole, fed with ladder line to be run between 2 trees over the house. One day th
The feed point of my inverted L was blown apart and the copper inside the insulation (both the "L" and horizontal elevated radial) was reduced to a black, brittle mess from a lightning strike and an
I had an 80 half wave inverted L, up 67 out 70 feet, made of #12, strung with great difficulty between two tall trees, that really worked well. The vertical came down to my tractor shed from the west
No, it was lightning. Here are pictures from an earlier event: http://www.w8ji.com/lightning_strikes.htm Now the problem is making wires vanish for long lengths, hundreds of feet!!! This problem see
Only once in a beverage, but have seen it many times on telephone drop wires from the pole to a home, the two copper clad steel wires would be "evaporated" and just the rubber insulation left hanging
A few years back in Houston, lightening hit the 90' pine tree my full size Carolina windom was attached to. The tree died and all the 14 gauge copperweld vanished back to the balun and line isolators
A few years back in Houston, lightening hit the 90' pine tree my full size Carolina windom was attached to. The tree died and all the 14 gauge copperweld vanished back to the balun and line isolators
Tom, When I was a young-un (in 1966) I had an old school beverage antenna suspended between a 40 ft pole and an 80 ft tree some 150 ft away, as with many antennas in those days it was made of what
Hi Tom, I have (unfortunately!) had this happen twice here where the Beverage wire literally melted in two from a nearby tree hit. I've never had the wire "vaporize" but definitely surprised by the "
Tom, I don't know if tunderstorms are more violent but this has been a very hot summer. Storms are more violent in the south. Did you live in Gerogia in the 60's and 70's? How do your small vertical