[Elecraft] MY SECOND K2

[Nick Waterman]

Paul Bruneau wrote:
>> You might be right, but I'd like to understand why - it sounds like 
>> you'd be making an almost ideal lightning target   :-)
> 
> I think it's already a target, being a conductor in the sky and all, and 
[...]
> That's how I think of it, but having said all that, I'm in a nice low 
> area that never ever gets struck, so I don't worry about it.

I remember operating VHF, hearing a thunderstorm in the distance and 
thinking it was time I shut down, and just before ending my QSO, 
realising I was chatting to a chap who's QTH was in Guildford - the 
direction of the oncoming thunderstorm. "Aren't you shutting down? That 
thunderstorm must be almost on top of you?", "Oh it's all around me, but 
I've got Guildford Cathedral almost outside my window and a few hundred 
feet above me, so I figure it's gonna get hit and I'm not!". Nutter!   :-)

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