| To: | "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] And one more thing..... |
| From: | "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> |
| Reply-to: | "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com> |
| Date: | Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:17:01 -0800 |
| List-post: | <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:35:59 -0500, Gene Smar wrote: >Those who are in lightning-prone areas may wish to shunt the boom >halves to the mast with suitable RF chokes, When designing a discharge path, one must bear in mind that lightning is NOT DC, but rather an impulsive event with energy broadly centered in several octaves around 1 MHz. A choke that has too much inductance will be slow at bleeding the buildup of charge. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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