[TowerTalk] Static, Lightening, and protection

[K3BU at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/22/04 12:02:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, w0hh at msn.com 
writes:
>>After personally inspecting such an 
installation that had just been hit, I decided to never have anything above 
the yagi except maybe 5' of mast for the truss. In 13 years, I have never 
had a hit. <<

Another vote for "Yuri's theory" of protection or repell. If there is a mast 
or sharp piece of hardware sticking out, it is advisable to have metal guy 
wires running from the tip to the boom. That would "mask" the "sticking out" of 
sharp "attractive" point and add to the "capacitor plate" being the antenna.

Yuri, K3BU.us