06-20-15 07:53 Mike Luther wrote to Mark Hofmann about Re: UPS units and   
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    ML> Hi Mark!   
   Howdy! Mike,   
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    ML> My main type ham radio interest for my still W5WQN call and the   
    ML> Extra Class license I got at 13 years of age in 1952 has always   
    ML> been on CW 40 meter work only.  That eventually got me 300 40   
    ML> meter only CW country QSL cards for my original only ever in   
    ML> the history of the ARRL initial application for my 40 meter CW   
    ML> DXCC award.  The antenna array out at our family remote site   
    ML> with even four tower 80 meter vertical phased array systems I   
    ML> use is hit directly an average of about three times a year.   
    ML> With my special work for suppression grounding for everything,   
    ML> including a complete ground radial grid with multiple   
    ML> dispersion radial spikes on it around the whole house, the last   
    ML> damage I have ever taken from this was back in I think 1974.   
    ML> However the worst strike I was personally involved in was out   
    ML> there when I was asleep in bed about 2AM.  The strike blew me   
    ML> out of the bed on the floor!  That's when I put in the ring   
    ML> ground line around the whole place.  And by the way - the   
    ML> normal power line ground spike at the meter is a joke when it   
    ML> comes to lightning.   
      
   While reading this I wondered if Your home has Lightning Rods too?   
      
   My home doesn't.   
      
   The house I rented before moving here had a metal roof and Lightning   
   Rods on it.   
   That's why I thought to ask You about this.   
      
   73 de W9ODR   
      
      
   ... I hit my CTRL key, but I'm STILL not in control.   
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