It's very tough, to protect a radio installation from a direct lightning strike?
But it's well worth protecting your gear from high voltage electric fields.
Just the wind blowing on an antenna wire can build up a large static charge,
enough to blow out a radio front end.??
During an electrical storm, even though you may not get a direct hit to the antenna,
there will be high static charges floating around that can draw quite large sparks.
Here's an old thread describing some of the measures you can take.
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/g/BITX20/topic/18853788Jerry, KE7ER
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 05:02 AM, d balfour wrote:
I don't believe that any "lightning arrestor" is worth much. Just a step above deer whistles.
Lightning is going to do what it is going to do.
