NO DANGER FROM LIGHTNING

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 16, 4 November 1927, Page 12

NO DANGER FROM LIGHTNING

Prospective broadcast listeners, and, éndeed, may radio owners, are needfessly alarmed over the possibility of fightning striking their aerials. "The myth of lightning being attracted by an @erial has been exploded more than ence. A properly installed aerial,

grounded through an opproved lightning atrester, is a protection rather than a hazard. It has the same construction and character as a lightning rod. It is stated. that in the United States, with its severe thunderstorms, the chance of lightning striking an aerial is one in about 65,000, and the actual damage would probably not exceed a few shillings. In Wellington and other New Zealand cities an authentic case of lightning striking an aerial has not yet been recorded.