[TowerTalk] Telephone Pole

[GALE STEWARD]

--- DavidC <eDoc@netzero.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ted:
I would also like to hear the reasons as there about a
trillion of these stuck in ground all over the world. 
Could they really be worse than any other type of
support?

73, Stew K3ND


> Lightning experts recommend against the use of
> telephone poles.
> Even if copper strapping is used to provide an
> artificial lightning
> ground.  I don't understand the entirety of the
> objection but it
> seems a pretty universal recommendation-to-avoid.
> 
> Perhaps someone on the list could explain this
> better?
> 
> - Thanks! & 73, DavidC  K1YP in Hudson, FL
> 

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