[TowerTalk] Lighting

[Tom Rauch]

> Probably experience.  I believe it, to a degree.  Just
last week,
> there was a lightning hit to a wooden power pole about
1000 ft from
> my tower.  It blew a bunch of fuses and lihgtning
arrestors on the
> power lines, and we were out for about 3 hours.  To the
best of my
> knowledge, my well-grounded tower's never been hit and
it's the
> tallest thing for about 1000 ft in any direction.

Barry,

Are you saying the power pole with connections to a huge
power grid and all those ground wires at every pole in the
system isn't grounded or has a higher impedance than your
tower ground has?

73 Tom