I have thouroughly solved both problems of lightning and rf by using my cold
water pipe.
As we all know , the cold water pipe is the BEST ground that one can obtain and
so I have expanded my cold water pipe to envelope my entire station. I do
sometimes get comments that my signal sounds watery but I can easily pass that
off as long path propagation.
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Ron
COLIN LAMB wrote:
> Since we do not fully understand lightning, nor know when or where it will
> strike, I propose that we treat it as a parasitic or arc over. A giant
> parasitic suppressor made of nichrome wire and tuned to perhaps 5 Hz. may
> reduce damage to house grids. This would be shunted with a 10,000 watt, .1
> ohm resistor. Installing a current limiting resistor might also help. I am
> not quite sure of the value, but I suggest a .01 ohm, 100,000 watt resistor
> for starters. This could limit lightning current and reduce the velocity of
> the parts exploding from the new Ten-Tec Orion.
>
> I had thought about reducing attraction of lightning by using underground
> half wave antennas - but that may not help. The voltage developed between
> the two half waves - even underground may be substantial. Perhaps the
> preferred solution is to elevate everything and power from a source other
> than the mains. A solar powered station on some lawn chairs supported by
> numerous weather balloons may solve the lightning problem.
>
> Colin K7FM
>
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