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To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
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
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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


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