[RFI] Lightning Protection

[Cortland Richmond]

This has been an interesting discussion.

Some years ago, while working on telecom digital loop equipment, I came 
across an REA handbook on-line that said running vulnerable conductors 
through iron pipe some feet long at a building wall reduced the current 
making it indoors; even a little inductance is effective if the source 
impedance is low enough.

And it might keep the fire from spreading if those wires exploded in the 
pipe!


Cortland
KA5S

On 7/2/2012 1310, dalej wrote:
> I suspect during a direct strike the coax would be vaporized so loops probably won't do much.  It was a way to take care of extra coax up there.  I always like to have a little more in case I make changes, which I do from time to time. If you go to my QRZ page and arrow down you can see the antennas and the loops.  The cover page they aren't installed because that picture is old, like me :)
>
> I'm learning a lot with this discussion about mother nature's sparks and how to properly ground a tower.
>
> 73
> Dale, K9vuj
>