>>
>> My experience is that lightning can be managed, to a point. A direct
>> strike to your tower can be catastrophic. I suffered one on May 9.
>> My daughter lives about 600 feet away and witnessed the strike. She
>> said sparks flew in all directions. My losses are huge. I am working
>> with the insurance company, and expect the total damage to be well in
>> excess of $50K. There is evidence that high voltage appeared on the
>> tower, power lines, phone lines
>> (fiber) and even on my wi-fi connection from the house to the shack.
>> Every gigabit switch was toasted, and every PC connected was blown.
>> Another big loss was two large screen TVs, both connected to internet
>> via gigabit switches. Repairs were successful by replacing the power
>> supplies.
>>
>> All this, plus my main two stations, both with Yaesu FTDX9000D and
>> Alpha 87A, are gone. Coax was not even connected because I had just
>> reconfigured the station and had not completed the coax switching
>> section. However, units were plugged into power, and the Yaesu
>> transceivers were connected to the PCs.
>>
>> 73, Keith NM5G
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Some 30 years ago I did a one day class from PolyPhaser.
One of their ideas was the highest thing on the tower should be a sharp pointy
rod, that would bleed off the charge
before it built up to “jump the gap”.
Maybe that, and their other toys fixed a couple two-way sites that got hit
every year.
Never again.
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