No problem - it is well known by most of us that a direct strike will do it's charcoal thing anyway - the Jar HAS helped in nearby strikes with minor flashovers..
That's the only reason it's used - at times when you can't disconnect the outside antenna(s), which IS the best way..
Tom
Glad you know of the consequence. Some people think the jar is the ultimate defense. Little do some people know lightning traveled through air 4+ miles. Air isn't the best conductor. It came all that way just to meet you and your antennas!
If it came such a long way, the resistance of a glass jar certainly can't stop it. Even if the glass was melted around the end of the plug, the lightning won't bother. It wants ground, and the BNC connector around that glass is a crappy ground. No problem for lightning. It'll just pop out through the insulation at the point nearest a ground. The coax runs nearby your radios prior to jar termination and I bet it'd rip through the plastic insulation to jump into the radios ground.
I mean, people have just laid coax on the floor, and lightning jumps out the end to a wall socket brushing against furniture in the path and causing fires. If it does that, a coax plastic insulator 0.5mm thick won't stop it.
Like you said though, if for whatever reason you forget/unable to disconnect the antennas then a jar is a hell of a lot better than just sitting on the floor.
why do you need so much bs? (not being offiensive by saying that, its just I don't know what 90% of that stuff is)
Do you have a job using all that stuff?
Croaker.
To the guy who said whats up with all the B.S., what's up with that comment? If I had all of that gear in my house, I wouldn't complain. Some people are involved in radio much more than you are. As a result they get joy out of buying new gear. I enjoy buying new stuff, although I don't have near as much redundancy as w4nov. Give it time, and about 10 years and my desk will probably look like his.
It's not BS when its all perfectly functioning stuff! Why throw out old gear?
