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A few weeks ago, I finally put up a random wire for the Softrock. It has made a big difference in reception over both a simple passive indoor loop and an attic dipole.? It is made with thin magnet wire, #26 or so. ? However, with warming temps here now comes the possibility of thunderstorms.? I basically have the end of the wire coming up to a BNC and soldered to the center.? To take off strain, the wire is first taped to the RG58 coax.? The BNC has the center random wire and the ground goes to the closest ground rod with a thick copper wire.? I'm wondering how to protect this simple system against static/ lightning?? Thanks!

Some kind of choke or balun at the bnc that has dc ground will be protective to static and is a minimum. Lightning protection is difficult but you might look at various lightning protection like arc protection like Alpha Delta coax switches provide.