[TowerTalk] Fwd: Fwd: Near Field Lightning Damage

[Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk]

Patrick,


You must be a lucky guy or be living in a no or low lightning zone. I can't count the number of CB radios my friends (I never owned a CB radio for some reason) had to repair/replace due to indirect lightning strikes and in a few cases direct hit on the CB antennas. I also have a few SWR bridges where the reflect diode burnt out from lightning induced power.


Hans - N2JFS


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Apr 19, 2015 10:15 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd:  Near Field Lightning Damage


Bill, in so doing you would be just as wrong as Hans.  Re the CB 
comment.  To
my knowledge we never replaced a CB for lighting causes.

Patrick   NJ5G

On
4/19/2015 7:33 PM, Bill Aycock wrote:
> Hans is right, if a little too gentle.
I would have called the tale
> "manufactured" on "Invented" rather than
"Anecdotal".
> Bill--W4BSG
>