[PCR-1000] Polarity & lightning

[Matthew Francey]

>I agree, just as I wrote earlier, a direct hit will burn out almost
>avery kind of man-made protection circuits
>in antenna circuits, including the antennas and equipment connected at
>the lower end of lead-in cables.

http://www.harvardrepeater.org/news/lightning.html

In fact, I highly recommend the query "gary coffman lightning" (no quotes)
at Google Groups.

(Any serious listener or amateur operator who is contemplating having a
house built is highly encouraged to check KE4ZV/Gary Coffman's writings on
the subject of lightning, as well as picking up a copy of Polyphaser's book
on the subject of grounding and lightning protection.  Doing the basics is
indeed not expensive -- just tedious and exacting.  There is not much margin
for error.)