Roger mentioned his tower gets hit 3 x per yr with lightning. Does any of the radio gear/coax ever get fried ? What is getting hit... the top of the tower, top of mast, or yagi ele's ?? If yagi's are
Just to simply make a few statements on the general questions: No, lightning doesn't always hit the highest point. In lightning triggered cameras watching frequently struck high voltage power lines t
FYI: A very well written and lucid article on this subject, and probably one of those that Dave is referring to, is: "There Is No Magic To Lightning Protection: Charge Transfer Systems Do Not Prevent
This is my favorite example: http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001879.jpg <http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001879.jpg>The surface of the shuttle launching pad is about
I have seen that picture before and wondered if it was confirmed to have hit the pad, or did it hit somewhere behind the pad? David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.n
Well, here it's captioned that "Lightning strikes the launchpad" http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=22745 but this is some press release written 19 years after the fact and probabl
*Was* getting hit three times a year. AFAIK it has escaped any hits for nearly 3 years. As is mentioned elsewhere for commercial installations they take the data over a decade or even several (I forg
You can also google for "lightning mousa" (Mousa is the author of a paper for an IEEE journal that got the mfr of lightning eliminators all riled up and threatening to sue IEEE) More links at http://
I like the picture of the lightning bolt hitting the experimental "lightning eliminator" (described as "used by NASA" in the mfr's literature) on the gantry. I see if I can find a link. _____________
If you know which mission, we can probably find out. I know that at least one Shuttle was hit by lightning during launch, but I think that was after it cleared the towers. ___________________________
The article claims it was STS-8. And then there was Apollo 12. I wasn't aware that it happened to a Shuttle during launch too. I thought their launch rules since Apollo 12 pretty much made that "imp