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On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:24:37 -0400, KK4CPS wrote:
>Bill, if you don't bond the ground systems together to bring them all to
>the same potential, the lightning already has a path to the house - the
>feedline! Then it gets to go through the radio and to the the ground on
>the power outlet, frying things as it goes... not a good plan!
>
>Matt
>KK4CPS
REPLY:
When lightning is around, I disconnect all coax and rotator cables and
I disconnect them at the base of the tower. I have connectors
installed there just for that purpose. There is no path into the
house.
Like I said, lightning does not want to go into your house, it wants
to go to ground. Why give it a path into the house via a ground wire?
Makes no sense.
73, Bill W6WRT
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