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[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lightning struck my late father's homemade CB radio antenna back in the early 90's. It made the antenna explode, and fried around 3/4 of every electronic device in the house โ˜น๏ธ

Thankfully the refrigerator survived at least, and of course thankfully the house didn't burn down.

If he had only properly grounded his antenna and CB radio...

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Huh, I was told a story of my father in law having the same thing happen to him, but luckily for them it only burned the electronics that were plugged into the antenna, and one tv that was too close to a radio that also got screwed up. Never got to meet the man though, unfortunately.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Holy shit who doesn't ground their fancy new lightning rod ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

My late father was a bit weird and eccentric. He built his custom CB antenna around PVC plastic tubing. Yeah it worked, hell he could communicate around 300 miles radius from the home base.

It worked, until it stopped working...

We ended up scavenging as many pieces of the PVC as we could, to reassemble it as a superglue/jigsaw puzzle haha!

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