On Feb 19, 8:35*am, Mike Luther wrote:


My 80 meter 4 square built like this .. four gamma match sections, one on each
element, gets hit directly at my QTH at least once a year here. *Absolutely no
damage to the shack stuff from this ever for almost two decades of this now.
And it is connected and up 24X7 just like the broadcast tower stuff.

W5WQN

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-- Sleep well; OS2's still awake!

Mike Luther

That's why all my antenna masts are metal and run all the
way down to the ground.
I don't know how many strikes I've had, but I know I've had
two of them with me sitting in this chair, which is about
15-20 feet away from the mast.
I've never had any damage. It's kind of weird..I don't
think I ever took a direct strike when I had the 40m GP
going. And it was nearly 70 ft up to the tip. Both strikes
that I saw were just hitting the 36 ft mast, which was
supporting wire dipoles at the time.