[Spooks] lightning again,...

[Ender Wiggin]

The local radio station I work at was hit by lightning a couple years ago
just as I was getting on shift. We have a ground net in the field around
the station (it was built in the 60's) but it still popped a few fuses in
our transmitter and killed the sound card in our computer and fried the
power supply and a couple audio lines in our board. Lightning is nasty
stuff.
On Jun 23, 2014 12:43 AM, "Robert Rode" <renegadechemist at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> ..Just the opposite, gang,... I always unplug coax,  one sunday morning,
> lightning hit my GROUNDED tower on top, grounded, mind you,..didnt follow
> easiest path to ground,.at least not all of it,.came down through rotor
> wires into shack, and every thing that had been on ground got it ..burn
> marks in paint from screws to metal,..every thing on the bench was trashed,
> it knocked the circuit breaker right out of the box, welded the plug into
> the socket, got my computer,.later found 3 burns in top of tower,...makes
> me wonder if tower WASNT grounded, would even got hit !!
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