[CQ-Contest] Re: [Towertalk] More on Lightning protection

KØHB k0hb at earthlink.net
Wed May 15 15:25:50 EDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Beckwith" <swca at 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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