I've never experienced this before a year or so ago, when I had a Beverage antenna melt in two from a nearby tree getting hit.
About a month ago I had about 300 feet of a Beverage just vanish from a hit on a tree next to the wire. Now it happened again this week, and long stretches of two Beverages just vanished. This is cad plated #17 electric fence wire. Anyone else have this happen? My copperweld #14, that clearly has arc pitting where it passed over other wires, shows no damage other than the arc pits. The cad-steel fence wire must get so hot it just vaporizes. I can't even find any pieces of it. Since the 1960's or 70's, this is the very first time I've seen this happen. Are thunderstorms more violent now, or is wire cheaper? :-) I'm not fixing my antennas until October or November. 73 Tom _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK