Posted: 4/7/2016 11:34:57 AM EDT
No cinder or char, just a 50 or 60 ft line of bark blown off the tree from last week's hit. Kinda lucky this year (so far), as last year's hit vaporized the vert I was using out in the lab....
This is about 150 ft from the house, and 2 trees down from the 90 ft inverted-L. Interestingly, it crashed WSJT-X on both computers I had running, but didn't actually crash the computers themselves. I imagine that the lightning arresters I had in line saved the radios, and possibly the pc's as well. |
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Daym. That was close. Most likely your surge and lightning protection saved the radio. The tree took a direct hut but there are always smaller streaks hitting objects nearby.
I once had a similar hit to a pine tree 100 yerds away. It sounded like a tank cannon. I heard a pop near the coax cables and could smell ozone. My FT1000 was connected to a vertical R8 antenna at that time. I had lightning arrestor on all coax cables but only one grounding rod. Single point ground probably saved the radio. Now my 80 ft tower is the highest object within several miles radius. I disconnect everything when not in use. |
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Hrm. I've never seen that before. That explains the stripe like that on a tree on my property. I also have another stripper on the property - it's several years / decade old and I used to wonder if we had a magic climbing beaver or something. Same striping - but the tree, also a tall pine, is fine. Maybe the lack of burning or charring keeps the tree safe. (Yes, we periodically have beavers. Sadly, am going to have to shoot another as they do eat the bark around the base of the trees, presumably damaging them :( ) |
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I also have another stripper on the property - it's several years / decade old and I used to wonder if we had a magic climbing beaver or something. Same striping - but the tree, also a tall pine, is fine. Maybe the lack of burning or charring keeps the tree safe. (Yes, we periodically have beavers. Sadly, am going to have to shoot another as they do eat the bark around the base of the trees, presumably damaging them :( ) Yeah, girdling the trees is a known way to let it remain standing while killing it. |
