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[TowerTalk] Grounding and Insurance WD4K

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounding and Insurance WD4K
From: n4gi@tampabay.rr.com (Blake Meinecke)
Date: Thu May 22 23:09:16 2003
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>The lightning jumped onto the AlFoil which was exposed by the
> bulkhead and then went along the AlFoil until it got to a metal shelf and
> jumped into the cabling I have.

This is why I, like some others I know here in FL, subscribe to the
non-conductive plexiglass bulkhead theory.  Reduction in paths for lightning
= good, I guess? Anecdotally, I knock on wood, er... plexiglass.

Blake N4GI

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