[SADXA] Lightning hit

[Jerry Wothe]

Just  to keep you all aware of the danger of lightning, my tower took a direct hit a few nights ago.

When  that occurred the whole house shook. The neighbors on one side said the car alarm on one of their cars went off from the shock of  the sound wave.

The neighbor on  the other side, a ham, said all the GFIs in his shack tripped.

All  the cables from my tower are disconnected from the shack and everything kept outside and tied to the tower. I checked any electrical device in my shack that was connected to the power and found no damage. I temporarily connected all my antennas as well as the rotor and everything checked out as OK.

A visual of the base of  the tower around the ground rod connections showed no sign of damage.

So I was lucky but then I was prepared for just such a hit.

Many years ago I  took a direct hit and it wiped out a lot of equipment in the shack and house.

Jerry

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