Save your "lightning arrestor" money and simply make an incoming cable
patch panel which will allow you to disconnect ALL wires that enter from
your ham radio--including ground wire, rotor cables, and of course, coax.
While anything is possible with lightning, it is much less likely that
your rigs will be hit is they are totally unpluged ( including from AC).
I put "lightning arrestor" in quotes because --in the ham world and on a
ham's budget--this phrase is a contradiction in terms.
de a person with direct hit experience twice, and five or six other major
"close encounters ofr the second kind." de K4VUD
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