SV: [AMPS] Misc. Oscillations

[sm5ki]

Interesting Peter and I agree. High objects all the time discharge the
charges above them. How come that on one occasion in Sweden a person was hit
by lightning right in the middle of a wood full with high trees? My theory
is that this person must have been walking and may have moved charges from
one place to the other opening a path  for the discharge? The chance that
the person should have been hit is otherwise minimal with hundreds of high
trees standing around?

Hej daa de Hans
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>Från: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>
>Till: "'sm5ki'" <sm5ki@algonet.se>, "'amps'" <amps@contesting.com>
>Ämne: RE: [AMPS] Misc. Oscillations
>Datum: mån 6 mar 2000 11.52
>

>Hans says;
>
>>How come , by the way, that so many hams and their families survived their
>>high come-and- hit-me-lightning  towers standing out from nearby high
>>objects? Is it not strange that so few direct lightning hits  have
>happened?
>
>One reason I saw advanced ( I can't remember where, but it was a respectable
>source) was that the grounded lightning conductor provided a degree of
>discharge of the atmosphere, thus preventing charge buld up. Consider a big
>(100kV plus) multiple  phase overhead AC line. Most have a ground conductor
>right up the top, and how often do the  towers and ground conductor get hit?
>So it suggests that there may be some truth in the theory.
>
>Purely anecdotal, unscientific evidence. Before my tower went up, there was
>a strike on one or other of the trees in the vicinity of my house about
>every once every 3 years. Since the tower went up in 1985, there hasn't been
>one.
>
>73
>
>Peter G3RZP
>
>
>

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