Only once in a beverage, but have seen it many times on telephone drop wires from the pole to a home, the two copper clad steel wires would be "evaporated" and just the rubber insulation left hanging in the air._
_Merv K9FD/KH6 > 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 > . > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK