[TowerTalk] Lightning

[Ford Peterson]

Tell you neighbor to be more concerned about an earthquake and the water
tower falling on his house....

Just kidding.

The Polyphasor site has alot of good info on lightning.  Print a good
article and give it to him (her).  With that much metal above his location,
lightning is the least of his worries.  It seems to me that the metal will
serve to discharge the air nearby and actually PREVENT ground strikes, which
are the dangerous hits.


Ford-N0OQW
ford@cmgate.com

As a side note, I ended up taking down an antenna at a previous QTH where
the neighbor (a retired fireman) seemed to believe that the antenna would
attract tornados.  He felt that tornados would "see" the antenna from
accross the lake, and run straight to my house.  Apparently, tornadoes don't
like antennas (hard to disagree with that).  If it hit my house, he was OK
with that.  You see, occassionally tornados miss their mark and it could hit
his house when it was really "aiming" for mine.  I took down the antenna
because it was causing other neighbors great distress.  I was at a complete
loss to find any scientific research to "prove" that tornadoes had no
eyes...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael J. O'Connor" <kn9t@webtv.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Lightning


> Hello Towertalkers, Need some help on this one. How do I explain to a
> very upset neighbor
> over 200 feet away that my well grounded 80
> foot tower is not going to attract every lightning
> bolt in the sky. Articles with info and facts?
> When I do present myself to her I need to have
> good info.  Any experience with this guys?
> Also 400 feet to the other side of this neighbor
> is a 200 foot water tower they dont seem concerned about,. 73 Mike KN9T
>
>
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