[SADXA] Lightning hit

[Darrel Emerson]

Scary.  How high is your tower?  My heart rate would still be racing.
   Cheers,
          Darrel aa7fv

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 06:08 Jerry Wothe <jdwothe at cox.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> W6xi
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