YUP! I know what you mean. I was called a liar here by a frequent
poster because his preconceived notions and lack of knowledge ran afoul
of my personal observation.
Patrick NJ5G
On 6/26/17 7:08 AM, ve4xt@mymts.net wrote:
People will believe what they want to believe and will dismiss everything they
don't want to believe as FAKE NEWS by the very dishonest media...
73, kelly, ve4xt
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 26, 2017, at 06:47, Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh no, all u guys are wrong! I have had one of those on my 40 foot tower
and have never been struck by lightning...
Chuck W5PR
:-)
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM, David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
wrote:
A good indication of the voodoo "science" involved in that link is the
fact that he built it with 500 (!) points. Ask yourself what 500 sharp
points would do that a few pointed different directions wouldn't. In fact,
pack enough points grouped close together and you make the static field
effect approximate a smooth sphere.
I'm always amazed that a hobby like ours, supposedly based in physics and
the real world, perpetuates so much garbage like this ... especially when
there are much more rigorous studies readily accessible out there on the
internet to debunk it.
Dave AB7E
On 6/25/2017 2:32 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
This topic has been discussed too may times and there seems to be nobody
with a definite answer. I have dissipators on my own tower. They are rather
easy to make. I haven't gotten any lightning strikes in them during the few
years the tower been up. That doesn't mean they are effective. I have
notice that I have had no strikes on my house, something that happened on a
relatively regular basis, since the tower went up. I think the tower itself
was the contributing factor to that, though.
I had a 0-0, stranded aluminum cable at hand when I raised the tower and
decided to put three, one on each leg, of them up. You can view they on my
facebook page. Does it work? Honestly, I have no idea. I do think that you
can build these dissipators yourself for a much lower price than what they
are offered at.
With 73 de,
Hans - N2JFS/SM6BXX
-----Original Message-----
From: Don W7WLL <w7wll@arrl.net>
To: Towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 24, 2017 11:25 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting Site
Ran across this looking for something else and noticed a section on
towers, grounding and other items we are all interested in. Sample article.
http://www.thebdr.net/articles/steel/twrs/TT-dissipators.pdf
Don W7WLL
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