On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:14:21 -0500, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

But I guess the the
currents in the coax weren't "near enough equal" in this one case.

This is the definition of Common Mode.

Kind of
defines lightning as it's own anomoly when it wants to be, huh.

It means you lacked the Common Mode protection. Your earlier posting
of:

The coax in question was disconnected about 150' from the house, but
lightning apparently jumped from the tower feed across a foot of air space
and back into the PVC pipe channel housing several coax, which led to the
house. The Drake was the luckiest of the second-story ungrounded shack gear.

screams this big time. There was nothing anomalous about that
lightning strike, it did what it was enabled to do.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC