Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to talk about lightning protection, we talk about some upcoming events/contests and hamfests over the next two weeks and wrap it up with some news from around the hobby! Show notes and further reading for this episode can be found at http://www.everythinghamradio.com/podcast/56/ Please subscribe to my website to receive emails on when I publish a new post or podcast episode by going to http://www.everythinghamradio.com/subscribe/. Fill out the form on the page and click on the “Sign Me Up!” button. Check you email and you should receive an email from me with a link that you will have to click on in order to confirm your subscription. Once you click on that link, you will start receiving emails from me.
Live near the top of the highest hill in my city, using an attic dipole. The radio (100 W) is grounded through the screw on a socket plate. When a nearby lightning strike fried the water heater and a few miscellaneous items I brought an electrician in. He checked the house grounding (very good) and installed an industrial level in-line power protector. Nothing will stop a direct strike but that should help. The sad thing is, I explained to my neighbors the risk we had and what we could do about it. They didn't have a clue what I was talking about and so did nothing.
call me lazy, but unplugging everything when you leave it seems like alot of work. when I goto my station, I want to power it on and get to operating. I dont want to have to go outside and fish my coax back inside, crawl under the desk to plug everything back in and then operate...
