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>Från: "sm5ki" <sm5ki@algonet.se>
>Till: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com> , "'amps'"
><amps@contesting.com>
>Ämne: SV: [AMPS] Misc. Oscillations
>Datum: mån 6 mar 2000 19.53
>
>Interesting Peter and I agree. High objects all the time discharge the
>charges above them. How come that on one occasion in Sweden a person was hit
>by lightning right in the middle of a wood full with high trees? My theory
>is that this person must have been walking and may have moved charges from
>one place to the other opening a path for the discharge? The chance that
>the person should have been hit is otherwise minimal with hundreds of high
>trees standing around?
>
>Hej daa de Hans
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>>Från: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>
>>Till: "'sm5ki'" <sm5ki@algonet.se>, "'amps'" <amps@contesting.com>
>>Ämne: RE: [AMPS] Misc. Oscillations
>>Datum: mån 6 mar 2000 11.52
>>
>
>>Hans says;
>>
>>>How come , by the way, that so many hams and their families survived their
>>>high come-and- hit-me-lightning towers standing out from nearby high
>>>objects? Is it not strange that so few direct lightning hits have
>>happened?
>>
>>One reason I saw advanced ( I can't remember where, but it was a respectable
>>source) was that the grounded lightning conductor provided a degree of
>>discharge of the atmosphere, thus preventing charge buld up. Consider a big
>>(100kV plus) multiple phase overhead AC line. Most have a ground conductor
>>right up the top, and how often do the towers and ground conductor get hit?
>>So it suggests that there may be some truth in the theory.
>>
>>Purely anecdotal, unscientific evidence. Before my tower went up, there was
>>a strike on one or other of the trees in the vicinity of my house about
>>every once every 3 years. Since the tower went up in 1985, there hasn't been
>>one.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Peter G3RZP
>>
>>
>>
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