[BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] spider balls

[Steve Katz]

Lightning ceases over big antenna farms?  I sure haven't seen that happen...

Biggest lightning damage I've ever seen occurred at WC2K in southern NJ
about 19 or so years ago.  Rick had big towers, including a self-supporter
about 120 feet high...very, very, very, very well grounded.  Lightning took
out most of his station, and he told me he literally sat there and watched
it happen.  Not much you can do about it when your rigs are exploding in
sequence on benches all around you.  I didn't see it happen, but I saw the
aftermath, and it wasn't pretty.  Thankfully, the house was saved.
-WB2WIK/6

-----Original Message-----
From: kk9a at arrl.net [mailto:kk9a at arrl.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:55 AM
To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Subject: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] spider balls


I really question this.  Why would lightning not strike a well grounded
tower.   Once, I watched a storm approach my station.  As it passed over I
saw lightning strike my tallest tower which has 15 ground rods and no spider
balls.

73,
John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Keller" <k3bz at arrl.net>
To: <Lew at dsl-only.net>
Cc: "'Towertalk Reflector'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 14:07
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] spider balls

<snip>  But that's what I've been told is the way lightning rods work, and
it sure seems to be consistent with what I've seen myself and what many
others have described. How else would one attempt to explain the strikes
from t-storms somehow ceasing while passing over a big antenna farm, then
resuming after passing it, as has been reliably reported here and elsewhere?



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