[FADCA] RE: Watch the Blue Light

[K4CJX]

You have to quit this love affair with mother nature. This will not be
the first time you got caught...
 
Steve
 

-----Original Message-----
From: bud thompson [mailto:budt at cfl.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 05:55
To: fadca at mailman.qth.net
Cc: Tamara Dial; Phil Bankston; Steve K4CJX
Subject: Watch the Blue Light


Picture this. . . I'm sitting at my computer answering an e-mail.
Immediately to my left, just inches more than an arm's length away, is a
window looking across the back yard to the lake.  At the floor level
beneath the window is the single point ground plate with five Polyphasor
lightning arrestors feeding through to the buried coax feed lines going
out to the 70 ft tower. 60 ft from the house. 
 
It was raining, but not hard.  I'd not paid attention to any thunder and
had not noticed any lightning until . . .
 
A spot of blue light out the corner of my eye - and BANG! immediately.
I was not sure if the light, which appeared to be just about eye height
was inside the room between the wall and me, outside, or just a
reflection of lightning in the glass - but I thought was in the room
with me!
 
No doubt the Polyphasor lightning arrestors did their job - as this was
a direct or near-direct hit!
 
Then there's that brown spot .  .  .
 
bud N0IA