Topband: Lightning and Beverages

[Donald Chester]

Spring is here, and the Beverage I put up in December didn't make it past 
the first round of spring thunderstorm.  Even though I disconnected the 
antenna from the matching transformer, enough of a jolt was picked up by the 
200+ feet of coax running from the receiver to the matching xfmr at the end 
of the beverage, to fry the transformer.  I'm gonig to have to rewind it, 
which was a long, tedious job the first time I did it.

Just wondering what effective measures anyone has discovered to avoid this 
problem, other than completely disconnecting EVERYTHING from the transformer 
when it is not in use: antenna, ground, feedline and all.

Don K4KYV

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