Subj : Vacation Time!
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Aug 18 2019 08:28:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM>Yes, you seem to be a bit of a lightening rod!  I'd probably do the same
 BM>with those experiences; as it is now just go to the point of having
 BM>installed a whole house surge suppressor, supressors and UPSs on some of
 BM>the individual electronics, antenna grounds, telephone grounds.
 DS>   All the surge protection in the world won't stop the power of a
 DS> lightning strike...one ham radio operator found out about that
 DS> the hard way...even after all the money he had spent.

True.  One thing I noticed while vacationing in Austria is a lot (if not
all) of the buildings have grounding wires: along the sides of the 
buildings will be a roughly half-inch wire, held out from the building 
about an inch.  


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