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Subject: [TowerTalk] Disconnecting cables and lightning (questions--
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 10:19:06
At 07:57 PM 6/4/98 -0700, Bob Wanderer wrote:
>----------
>Well, Pete, as someone else pointed out, you'd have to disconnect every I/O.
>Getting back to the crux of your query, if those conductors are not near
any other
>conductor going into the house and you grounded those conductors (prefered)
>you'd probably be OK. Similar, to a point; Better, only if you perfomed
the act
>every time you finished operating; Worse, probably not.
>
>Put a #1 Iron golf club atop your tower. You'll be totally safe. As Lee
Trevino once
>said, "Not even God can hit a #1 Iron."

I love it!

I do disconnect every conductor -- fortunately, I have a simple station.
Thanks for the info.



73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

"That's WEST Virginia.  Thanks and 73"

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