Went to\ work AM sunny. Came home 1730. There had been a local thunder storm for about 1 1/2 hours.
Expecting the worse BUT no box still working fine.
A couple of rumbles still going on.
My antenna is in the roof and it's the Watson linear.
I was more worried about my HF vertical and delta loop I have for ham radio.
Still very hot and a thunder storm is expected later.
Also no extra static precautions.
and the RB is only 4 months old
Be careful...be very careful...:-/
Regards,
-=Glyn=-
What a friend of mine has done to prevent lightning strikes on his various roof antennas is to put up a homemade lightning conductor on the other side of the roof from the antennas. It's also a good 4ft higher than the highest antenna.
The blitzortung.org-strikes sight is worth keeping an eye on. Very interesting
The site below is also intresting to check any storms approaching for the UK and Northern France.
http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
Hi, another great one if you like Yahoo Widgets is the Euro Lightning Map. When downloaded put your co-ordinates in longitude & latitude and you'll get get a storm warning message which states how far the strike is away from you. For example..." Storm warning, 2 strikes detected, 17 miles to your north-west"!! Great fun and it works too!!!
We in the UK suffer more tornados caused by lightning per square mile than anywhere else in the world!!!! Just a trivia fact.