[TowerTalk] Lightning

[Donald Milner]

Hi Charles; I think you were just very lucky, wait a month or two and then
check the coax, you may have to throw it all out and replace with new coax.
I know I would not be happy with that coax.  At this end the tower is
earthed as is everything else.  So far touch wood its been OK, hate those
lightning storms we get in this part of the country during our summer, its
like the 4th of July.

73 ... Don ... ZS6AQS
 
At 10:24 AM 5/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey gang, lightning again.
>Had a hit on my Hustler G-6 (base at 88 feet).  Top alumn. tube is GONE.
>Cant't find it on roof or earth!  SWR and freq resonance is way off,
>surprize.  NO harm to coax, other antennas under, nor window patch panel.
>My point:  My tower and coax system is as follows:  No ground rods on the
>tower (just goes into concrete), coax comes down to a window patch panel,
>where all sockets are insulated from each other and just floating (no
>arrestors, no spark gap, no direct grounding), and all coax lines, power
>lines, ground lines, and phone lines to the gear fully disconnected and
>moved away from inlets of same.
>Now, I get the hit and only the top Hustler gets fried.  Wuz I lucky or
>maybe VUD's theory of antenna lightning protection worked--i.e., no
>grounds, all floating, yields little path and little burning?  de K4VUD
>
>
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