[Spooks] Sorry about the newbie question

[Zack Widup]

Hi Justin,

I'd ask if you have many taller trees in the area surrounding your antenna.
I have several ham radio HF wire antennas in my yard. I am surrounded by
trees in the 40 to 60 ft height range. My antennas are up maybe 30 feet. In
20+ years at my current location I have never had a direct lightning strike
(knock on wood) and only once a strike across the street induced enough
voltage to blow out the diodes in my SWR bridge connected to the antenna.

73, Zack (W9SZ)


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Justin Solonynka <jsolony at comcast.net>
wrote:

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> If this is totally against the rules for me to ask a newbie question here,
> I apologize and please ignore.
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> I just got interested in Numbers Stations (as a math teacher, I love
> numbers and codes, and when I played some recordings I found online for my
> students, they were totally creeped out - which was a bonus).
>
> I got myself a Tecsun PL-600.  I'll be really excited if I ever get to
> hear a Numbers Station live -- at this point I'm just interested in hearing
> stations from around the world, and particularly folk music of other
> countries.
>
> The Tecsun PL-600 came with an antenna, maybe 20 feet long(?).  My office
> is on the second floor of my house.  I've run the antenna out my window and
> attached it to a tree, diagonally from my house.
>
> My incredibly newbie question is: Do I need to worry about lightning?  As
> long as I keep the antenna unplugged from the radio during a lightning
> storm, will I be OK?  Obviously I haven't done anything to "ground" my
> antenna, but all it amounts to is a wire running from my window to a tree,
> about 12 feet off the ground. There are much taller trees all around the
> house.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!  Justin
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