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<TITLE>RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lightning protection?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: lkhoo@csc.com.au [<A HREF="mailto:lkhoo@csc.com.au">mailto:lkhoo@csc.com.au</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 10:59</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>After an eventful night with the weather last night (I live in Lilydale and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>got pretty much flooded!) I started thinking about what would happen if an</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>antenna used for wireless was hit by lightning? I'm not very knowledgeable</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>in this area so I suppose this would apply to the average TV antenna also.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Does anyone have any protection for their gear from this sort of thing? Or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>are the chances of a strike so slim that there is no point in doing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>anything?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Lucas Khoo</FONT>
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