Usually when I get threw fooling with my radio equipment for the day I disconnect all my hf antennas and lay them in a spot so when they arc it wont cause much of a problem. I went on vacation to enjoy one of my other hobbies "fast boats" and left without unhooking the feed lines.
When I returned it had just started to rain so I put the boat in the carport and thought about the feed lines when I heard it rumble kinda close, so I ran in the house and started un hooking the cables. The vhf stuff is easy, un hook the coax to the equipment and put the switch box to ground. The hf stuff is not set up that way. I got the 75 meter loop unhooked ok and was working on the 75/40 inverted vee when I had a strike close but not very close.I still had the pl259 of the vee in my hand when the strike hit and must have induced enough voltage to give me a jolt. My hand was numb from my fingers to my elbow for a minute or so. Could have been a very bad situation.
Folks, dont be messing with your antennas during an electrical storn.:redface::blush:
When I returned it had just started to rain so I put the boat in the carport and thought about the feed lines when I heard it rumble kinda close, so I ran in the house and started un hooking the cables. The vhf stuff is easy, un hook the coax to the equipment and put the switch box to ground. The hf stuff is not set up that way. I got the 75 meter loop unhooked ok and was working on the 75/40 inverted vee when I had a strike close but not very close.I still had the pl259 of the vee in my hand when the strike hit and must have induced enough voltage to give me a jolt. My hand was numb from my fingers to my elbow for a minute or so. Could have been a very bad situation.
Folks, dont be messing with your antennas during an electrical storn.:redface::blush: