I was working CW on 40m using my homebrew EL84 rig. The antenna was a straight dipole using telephone drop wire as the feeder.
Meanwhile the sky became overcast and there was a continuous rumble as I continued to work.
All of a sudden I received a jolt through my Junker key followed by the crash of a thunderbolt.
The following morning's local newspaper headline was 'Lightning stuns football players'. It was a direct hit at the nearby football field. Fortunately only a couple of the players had fainted and there were no casualties.
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