[FADCA] Watch the Blue Light

[J Daughtry]

Bud
would be a good time to acuall recheck youre ground rod I had a hit take one
out burned it into about 2 feet in the ground thank god I found it before
the fireworks got inside , My tower thats on the ground now had  from sky
junk one of the lighting disenpaters on top and it was a past time to watch
the fire balls roll off the top at night during the frequent  night
fireworks shows
 John
----- Original Message -----
From: "bud thompson" <budt at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>; "Florida Amateur Digital Communication
Association" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Phil Bankston" <pbankston at earthlink.net>; "Tamara Dial"
<tdial at qwest.net>; "Steve K4CJX" <k4cjx at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Watch the Blue Light


> I received this note from Phil Bankston - my next door neighbor who has
> experienced this location for longer than anyone in the neighborhood.
>
> "I know the strike you are speaking about.  It wasn't a direct hit, but it
> was a damned close one.  I happened to be looking out my front window, and
> it was extremely close.  I checked all my electrical and electronic stuff.
> No problems, but that is because I have more lightening protectors than
> anyone in Deltona.   Good ones -not from Wal-Mart.
>
>  When I first came here in '78 I had just gotten my first quality stereo
and
> accessories in when  a strike hit a tree just across the canal from me.
> Over the next three months all my new appliances went to hell.  Only my
> stereo was undamaged.  The reason, a set of quality arrestors was
installed
> on it.  The doggoned stuff cost me more that my refrigerator!"
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
>
> <snip>
>
> >Was the blue light BEFORE the actual discharge or was it the
> >discharge, if it was
> >dark enough you may have seen the leader that forms before the actual
> >high current
> >discharge takes place, if you are near or on one end of it this is
> >sort of like the last
> >view a fly has of a dragon fly bearing down on it... You see it and
> >then you are caught
> >up in it...
>
> >From Phil's report I'd say I did not see the leader - I had figured what
I
> saw was some manifestation of the Polyphasor(s) discharge since I felt it
> was right in the room with me!
>
> > Did you go and check your coax for perforations in the
> >underground
> >part? Is the coax in some sort of pipe or is it just buried? the
> >discharge may have
> >popped holes in the insulation...
>
> The five coax lines are buried in aluminum down spout tubing.  I'd have to
> dig it all up to inspect it.  If/when I determine an unacceptable VSWR, I
> can isolate the underground part from the run that goes up the tower.  At
> the base of the tower I have another single point ground plate where all
> coax lines go through the plate via coax barrels/ feed throughs.  That
also
> helps those surges that are on the braid find a shorter path to ground
than
> to come into the house to do so!  I've been tempted to add another set of
> Polyphasors at that point as well!
>
> bud
>
>
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