[Elecraft] MY SECOND K2

[Stephen W. Kercel]

May your good luck continue.

73

Steve
AA4AK


At 05:29 PM 9/1/2005 -0700, Earl W Cunningham wrote:
>Stephen W. Kercel wrote:
>
>"If your antenna is actually struck by lightning, the antenna itself will
>most likely be destroyed, along with the coax and the rig.  Also the
>building will suffer structural damage."
>==========
>In the 8 years that I lived near the Gulf Coast in Texas as W5RTQ (lots
>of lightning there), my tower and antenna took many lightning hits with
>no damage to anything whatsoever.  The antenna coax was always connected
>to the rig.
>
>In the 29 years I've lived here in the Mojave Desert (lightning is rare
>here), my tower(s)/antenna(s) have been struck twice by lightning with no
>damage to anything whatsoever.
>
>I should mention that the towers involved had extensive buried ground
>radial systems made up of bare wire (I shunt feed my towers on 160/80
>meters).  I assume that my well-grounded towers attract lightning, but
>obviously that lightning is safely conducted to ground.
>
>73, de Earl, K6SE