[Elecraft] Lightening damage

[Mark Bayern]

> Certain radio and TV services need to operate 24/7 and can't shut down when
> lightening threatens.  Their grounding methods apparently prevent the towers
> from being hit .

My experience as a 1st Phone running AM broadcast stations is that the
towers _are_ hit by lightning. This was in the early '70s and all base
insulated towers had a lightening arrestor across the insulator.
Normally the transmitter would drop out momentarily. Most of the
stations had two 833s for the the finals. Guess they can handle some
abuse.

Once I lost a selenium rectifier but that was most likely a power line hit ...

Mark AD5SS