[TowerTalk] Lighting

[jerryc]

Tom
I may be wrong but my take on this is that many of us were
told that structures not properly grounded would build up static
and be more likely to attract a strike.  I have also wondered
about the fact that tall grounded structures could attract a hit.
I went the route of the best grounding I could afford and polyphasers
on all coax cables.  BUT I still unhook during thunderstorms (I am
not weathy enough to chance a hit with my hard urned equipment).
JerryC
KC8TES








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: "Wilson Lui" <wilsonlui at atitec.com>; "'David Robbins K1TTT'"
<k1ttt at arrl.net>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lighting


> Thanks Dave and Wilson.
>
> > Grounding does not prevent strikes. What a proper
> grounding system does do
> > is allow for any lightning strike that does happen is
> condected safely into
> > the surrounding soil and not arc through any
> equipment/structure trying to
> > find a lower resistance path to earth.
>
> That's my opinion also, based only on the physics involved.
>
> I notice a large group of people actually think lighting
> does not hit grounded structures because grounding causes
> the charges to bleed off or dissipate.
>
> I'm curious where that idea actually came from. Does anyone
> know?
>
> 73 Tom
>
>
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