[SADXA] Lightning hit

[Wes]

Glad you survived unscathed.

On 8/14/2022 6:08 AM, Jerry Wothe wrote:
> Just  to keep you all aware of the danger of lightning, my tower took a direct hit a few nights ago.
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> 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.
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> The neighbor on  the other side, a ham, said all the GFIs in his shack tripped.
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> 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.
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> A visual of the base of  the tower around the ground rod connections showed no sign of damage.
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> So I was lucky but then I was prepared for just such a hit.
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> Many years ago I  took a direct hit and it wiped out a lot of equipment in the shack and house.
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> Jerry
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> W6xi
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