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October 21st 04, 07:07 AM

On 20 Oct 2004 12:21:27 EDT, am (Gary V.
Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:
In some minor cases we found the places where lightning struck through
burn and/or pit marks combined with visual observations of bystanders!
Other times, the foot long melted out section of guttering was a dead
giveaway along with the distortion of the rest of the guttering to
ground.

Hi Gary,

By this, I suppose you to mean that any report of strikes to a tower
were those chance occurrences of being seen as a direct hit, and no
one regularly inspected all metal structures for evidence after a
storm to verify unobserved strikes.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC