[MLB-WIRELESS] Lightning protection?

[ABBENHUYS, Ryan]

There's a few mobs selling lightning protectors on Ebay.  I had a look at
one of their websites and they had a picture of a bundle of equipment and
cable that was allegedy struck.  Looked mighty messy, the cable had all
split at various points and the internal bits were spilling out, the rest of
the hardware looked fairly black.

-----Original Message-----
From: lkhoo at csc.com.au [mailto:lkhoo at csc.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 10:59

After an eventful night with the weather last night (I live in Lilydale and
got pretty much flooded!) I started thinking about what would happen if an
antenna used for wireless was hit by lightning?  I'm not very knowledgeable
in this area so I suppose this would apply to the average TV antenna also.

Does anyone have any protection for their gear from this sort of thing? Or
are the chances of a strike so slim that there is no point in doing
anything?

Thanks

Lucas Khoo




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