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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: [Towertalk] More on Lightning protection
From: k0hb@earthlink.net (KØHB)
Date: Wed May 15 15:25:50 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Beckwith" <swca@swbell.net>

>
> I heard a story about some ops watching a thunderstorm approaching the old
> W7RM on the bluff.  I guess it was a really spectacular storm.  As it blew
> over W7RM, the storm quit kablamming, and after it passed W7RM the
> kablamming resumed.  The conclusion was that all the metal in the air at
> W7RM dissipated all the charge in the immediate vicinity.
>
> Someone stop me if this is nothing more than an urban legend.
>


Perhaps it was one big gun showing respect for another and not QRMing him?  :-)


(©¿©)  73, de Hans, K0HB
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