[K3PZN-List] Lightning, antennas, and coax

[Kyle Thornton]

Hi All,
So with all the storms that have been rolling through the area lately I
think I might have myself a slight issue. I have a terrible feeling that at
minimum my HF Wire antenna strung up in an inverted V formation @ 30ft is
fried if not close to it and the HF coax fried as well. Im not 100% sure but
I think something is up. The HF radio has a built in tuner (480 SAT) and is
usually wonderful at tuning certain bands up to 20m then is not able to.
Antenna is 52ft long (Junior G5RV from MFJ) and is cut to to tune 40-10. For
the jobs that the internal tuner can't do I have a jumper going into an
external tuner. Technically everything is running through that jumper and
into the tuner but I keep it switched to bypass the tuner when not needed.
When I do need the tuner I flip it to where it needs to be adjust some
things and boom I'm on 40, 80 with some work, and 160 with tons of work. It
works perfectly. Up until these storms. Most of the storms I was able to get
down to the shack and disconnect the coax even though everything is below
roof line with plenty of other objects such as water towers for lighting to
strike. From what I can tell I never took or came remotely close to a direct
hit even though there was visible strikes no more than 2 miles away. Since
the radio won't even tune 10 anymore much less any other band could this be
sign or fried coax and antennas or could it be a failing internal tuner? How
do I check all this? 2M side of everything seems to work fine and that
antenna is the tallest one on the mast. 
Thanks!
Kyle   

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