[AMRadio] Comment on lightning surges

[Jim Wilhite]

Is that why I haven't heard him on the air lately Bill?

Jim/W5JO


----- Original Message ----- 

 A friend of mine
> Jack Sellmeyer AD5VO who is a PE with 50 + years in radio broadcast 
> engineering
> and an NAB award for lifetime achievement can relate to lightning 
> entering on
> the station ground. He took a near hit to his "play pin" as he calls 
> it and lost
> a SDR radio and some of his computer network. He has wire antennas 
> galore and a
> tall vertical with switchable top loading and the strike came in on 
> the ground.
>
> Bill AD5OL