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					Originally Posted by  pat191
					 
				 
				While I was thinking about mounting in a tall tree, all I could think of  
was lightning   
			
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 You should ground the antenna in anticipation of lightning strike, regardless of whether its on the roof or in a tree. You also isolate the feed-in from lightning. This has been discussed a lot here. 
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+and+grounding
Member GroundUrMast knows a lot about this ... I expect he will reply. As I recall, he points to this thread 
http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=901 as a primer on the subject.