[SADXA] Lightning hit
Bill Clark
bill.clark.jr at outlook.com
Sun Aug 14 11:36:27 EDT 2022
The following map is a great way to watch lightening strikes in real time in your own neighborhood. No need to count - the map shows the approaching sound wave also.
http://www.lightningmaps.org/
73, Bill / K6WSC
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From: sadxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <sadxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jerry Wothe
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2022 7:29 AM
To: Darrel Emerson <demerson2718 at gmail.com>; Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [SADXA] Lightning hit
Hi Darrel:
During the DX season for me the tip of the mast on my system is 85' ft high. But prior to the Monsoon I crank it down to where the mast is just 40 feet. But, it is still the tallest thing around my neighborhood by a quarter mile or so. There are some trees a little less than that away but best I know they have never been hit.
That night I could hear the storm coming as it was really noisy and then it was quiet for a few minutes and then this hit. It was followed by maybe less than 10 min two more close hits that were less than a half mile away. In a storm like that I see the flash I count the seconds before the shock wave arrives to get a measure of how far away that hit was.
Along with the wind, that often comes with a storm like that and the likelihood of a lightning hit, it is exciting.
Jerry
W6XI
> On August 14, 2022 at 7:08 AM Darrel Emerson <demerson2718 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 mailto: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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