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Re: [TowerTalk] Is lightning hitting the tower..or the yagi's

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Is lightning hitting the tower..or the yagi's
From: "K1TTT" <K1TTT@ARRL.NET>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:54:09 +0000
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> 
> Although I have no qualitative data to support this theory, the thought is
> that the tall tower and antenna elements dissipate to ground static
> charges in the vicinity of the tower, reducing the effect of enough static
> energy to build up for a strike. I have 27 ground rods under my tower and

sorry, no... the QUANTITATIVE data collected by lightning researchers says
the taller the tower the more strikes it gets.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 



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