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<blockquote data-quote="aceb" data-source="post: 1048252" data-attributes="member: 268811"><p>My dad was a fireman and they had a few shouts to the aftermath of lightning strikes, the strangest one was a direct strike to a TV aerial, it jumped the gap from the coax behind the tv to a radiator and blew it off the wall. The TV was still working when they arrived. </p><p></p><p>That's a really novel idea and while it may not protect everything from a direct hit it will reduce the possibility of front end damage from nearby strikes. Some years ago with a storm a few miles away I started hearing a clicking noise from my radio room. Went in to find it was being produced by sparks jumping the gap across a PL259 that I'd unplugged from a radio, it wasn't even a large antenna, just a vertical dipole for 6m.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aceb, post: 1048252, member: 268811"] My dad was a fireman and they had a few shouts to the aftermath of lightning strikes, the strangest one was a direct strike to a TV aerial, it jumped the gap from the coax behind the tv to a radiator and blew it off the wall. The TV was still working when they arrived. That's a really novel idea and while it may not protect everything from a direct hit it will reduce the possibility of front end damage from nearby strikes. Some years ago with a storm a few miles away I started hearing a clicking noise from my radio room. Went in to find it was being produced by sparks jumping the gap across a PL259 that I'd unplugged from a radio, it wasn't even a large antenna, just a vertical dipole for 6m. [/QUOTE]
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