Can a antenna be hit by a lighting/?

Question

Can a antenna be hit by a lighting/?

Answer 1

Yes! it can be hit by a lightening. Generally the antenna is fitted at a height  for good reception. the lightening does not strike directly to the antenna but the tall tree near by building can attract the lightening and then it finds antenna another good conductor for easy grounding.

It has been seen that clouds comes down very low during rainy season. Clouds heavily charged up with +ve when comes closer to high building or tall trees fines easy path to discharge to the ground.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yes it no different to a lighting rod. Lighting is not fussy

Answer 4

Yes. I am a radio amateur and as such we are recommended to earth our antenna in case of lightning. But you can't do it directly because your antenna has to carry waves that are in counterweight of exactly that, the ground reference. A simple way to do it is to have a rod in the ground and a wire only a couple of milimeters from the rod. In case of a lightning hit, the tiny gap will be jumped by the extremely high voltage of the lightning bolt very easily.

This is also what I have on the mast foot of my sailboat: A short jump wire to the keel bolt.

An interesting thing about masts (or antenna, for the matter) is that if your mast is not earthed (to the sea!) if a lightning bolt is to hit the sea within a radius about the size of the mast, it will hit it. If the mast is earthed, it will be in a radius of one and half the size of the mast.

Answer 5

By ligthning you mean? Yes, very likely.

Answer 6

yes!! get lightning rods!!