James Wolf wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>> I think it was w3lpl a while back, mentioned the lightning would stop when
>>> it got to his ant farm... pass
>>> right over it.... then start up again on the other side. That apparently
>>> will work... IF the towers are well grnded... and
>>> have lots of well bonded yagi's on the sides of the tower.
>>
>> Bonding, bonding, and bonding... But I can think of no real reason why a
>> storm would just skip over an antenna farm. They, being the tallest
>> subjects around usually take the brunt of the attack.
>
>
> 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 I can hear
> continuous static discharge tics and "zips" from the top of the 130 ft tower,
> even when lighting occurs many miles away. Of course, that doesn't mean you
> won't take a strike.
>
>
And, as it happens, the folks who study lightning for a living DO have
quantitative data, and it's not borne out. As K1TTT mentioned, you have
to have many years of data, because local variability is pretty big.
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