[TowerTalk] grounding

[Cqtestk4xs@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/9/05 3:04:03 AM Greenwich Standard Time, 
garyschafer at comcast.net writes:
This is beginning to sound like " I placed the end of the cable in a 
pickle jar full of water and can't understand why I got hit by 
lightning".  :>)
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Yup, the cables leading into the house were grounded at the bulkhead in my 
case.  The cables that picked up the lightning hit were the ones leading to the 
rigs.

I agree that you can't just leave the cables coming into the house just 
laying around.  One of the locals did just that.  He left the coax from his 100 
footer laying on the floor in his shack.  The room had a 4 inch slab floor, as 
most of the Florida homes do.  He came home one day after a big storm to find 
his shack dusty, with chards of concrete all over the room...imbedded in the 
ceiling and the walls.  And, there was a big hole in the floor where the coax 
blasted through the rug and the concrete.

Bill  K4XS