Lightning Protection

Read up on lightning protection and follow the suggestions and guidelines offered. If you are using the Heath ID-5001, there are guidelines in the manual. Polyphasor has a good book on grounds. When I ran an HF gateway BBS I was hit twice within a month and lost all the radios (four of them) and TNCs. By some miracle, the computer was not touched. All this, and I had what I thought at the time was a fairly hefty ground system. I have since beefed up the installation with more ground rods and interconnecting bus cable. I have also invested in gas-discharge lightning protection on all antenna feedlines. MOVs abound across leads to the Weather Station as well as the serial lines between the Weather Computer, PC, and TNC. Protect yourself!