I have my surge protectors at the entrance to the house. I realize that a) this is only for surges, not a direct strike and b) this is not protecting the preamps at the antenna or the coax run, but I'll take that risk. I had to use a separate power line, and that also goes through a surge protector.

o73,

Burns WB1FJ

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:50 PM Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote:

On 10/20/22 11:15, John Kludt wrote:
> "Good insurance!" Do what you can afford but nothing will
> protect you completely.
Agreed. Having witnessed a strike to our house which hit the gutters
only a few dozen feet away (and survived it -- inside), I can say that
your best protection is _unplugging_ everything when not in use.

A direct strike arced over GDTs and still fried some of the equipment
attached to the coax. This included the the cable modem, whose coax
happened to run right beside the HF coax.

--- Zach
N0ZGO

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