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 hit
on a tree next to the wire.
Now it happened again this week, and long stretches of two Beverages just
vanished. This is cad plated #17 electric fence wire.
Anyone else have this happen? My copperweld #14, that clearly has arc
pitting where it passed over other wires, shows no damage other than the arc
pits. The cad-steel fence wire must get so hot it just vaporizes. I can't
even find any pieces of it.
Since the 1960's or 70's, this is the very first time I've seen this happen.
Are thunderstorms more violent now, or is wire cheaper? :-)
I'm not fixing my antennas until October or November.
73 Tom
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