Mil,

When I still lived in the country, I had the same thing - 15 foot high power lines just beyond the runway. One of my friends who would drive out to fly there had a habit of hitting them. Once the pole, and 3 or 4 times his plane went"surffing" on the wire! Lucily the wires never fried his radio, just a few broken props and a missing tailwheel. Ever since then, we call him "Hydro".