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[Music] hello aggies worldwide i'm dave casler amateur radio callsign ke0og here with episode 331 of ask dave today we're going to talk about how lightning arresters work lightning arresters are something that i urge you to have on every antenna mounted at a ground rod where your antenna lead comes into the house but let's take a look at it first of all what is lightning lightning is nasty stuff i mean it's pretty and makes a big boom and all that sort of thing but it's actually something pretty nasty if this is the ground and here's a clouds from a thunderstorm okay thunder storm means that the cloud or the storm makes thunder and what makes the thunder is the lightning so thunderstorms always have lightning now what happens is the this is a heat engine there's a part of the thunderstorm here to here where the air is going up and a part of the thunderstorm where the air is coming down