Dan Jacobson
...what to do...
...about the dangling cord...

I had a foot-long (happened to see it!) lightning-induced spark jump
from the disconnected and dangling antenna cable, RG8 coax from my 80m
dipole, onto the Morse code key cable. It killed four T/R switching
transistors in my rig - all associated with the key input. Eventually
fixed the rig myself...phew!

I guess I should have dangled the antenna cable just a bit further
away from the expensive things - he he.

73.

PS - don't disconnect it DURING the lightning storm...