"Richard Clark" wrote

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.

Richard, do you mean that if the coax had been left connected to the dipole
it would have afforded common-mode protection? I think I understand what
you're saying but would appreciate you tying that principle together.
Thanks.

Jack