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Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning suppression through coax loops

To: "David Jordan" <Wa3gin@comcast.net>, "'Gene Smar'" <ersmar@verizon.net>, <n4zr@contesting.com>, <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning suppression through coax loops
From: "Jim Miller KG0KP" <JimMiller@STL-OnLine.Net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:08:01 -0500
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>  Is there enough inductance to offer any practical blocking effect for 
> induced voltages resulting from a nearby strike?

ISTM the inductance created with a million volts of lightning strike would 
be significant even in two turns of coax.  Give it some place to jump off to 
ground too (lightning arrester, spark gap hi hi).

73, de Jim KG0KP 


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