Hi Greg,
I have seen lightning hit the power transformer next door
while completely ignoring my 7 towers ranging from 40 to
140 ft with 20 HF Yagis and wire antennas.
de Tom N4KG
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:27:16 -0500 "Greg Gobleman" <k9zm@frontiernet.net>
writes:
>
> I just had the most amazing conversation with my contractor. I had
> called
> him to check a roof leak next to a chimney in our bedroom. He had
> put the
> roof on last year and we had just had a series of storms with 6"
> rain and
> high winds overnight a few days ago. He could find nothing wrong
> with the
> flashing, the chimney however has a bunch of bricks which appear to
> have
> blown out in pieces and a new big crack that you could stick a
> pencil in.
> The contractor says it was hit by lighting and the heavy rain and
> high wind
> forced it in the crack to run out lower in the chimney, finally
> ending up on
> our bedroom ceiling.
>
> Now I'm no dummy, and I know that lighting will do what it wants to
> do. But
> I looked at him, then the chimney, then at my 60' Rohn 25G tower 40
> feet
> away, with a 6el Telrex tri-bander, rotatable dipole for 40m and a
> 2meter
> vertical on top, for about 75' in total height. Then I looked at
> the
> nearest anchor point about 8' away with 2 steel guys going to the
> tower.
> Further noting in my own mind that I had found no damage to anything
> related
> to the radio or any electronic device in our home, and asked, "
> Don't you
> think it would have hit the tower first or instead of the chimney."
> He said
> "Maybe it's grounded better."
>
> I can't wait for the insurance adjuster to see this. Has anybody
> ever
> experienced anything like this? Just curious.
>
> 73
> Greg K9ZM
>
>
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