Celestial Fireworks Play Round 4YA's Radio Mast

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 28, 23 December 1938, Page 3

Celestial Fireworks Play Round 4YA's Radio Mast

QTATION 4YA’s 512-foot mast on Otago Peninsula attracts lighte ning. During the recent unusualiy severe electrical disturbances . in Dunedin, the mast was a playground for the celestial fireworks, That part of the proceedings was right enough, for the mast is proetected against such happenings, but lightning which continued for nearly two hours taxed even the resistance of a fully insulated mast, and minor trouble was experience? at the transmitter.