[TowerTalk] Porqupines

[Norman Hockler]

The best qualifications you can get...empirical data.  I installed 3 on a 
110 foot topsail schooner that had been hit 3 times.
It was never hit again ( lost track of it 10 years later).

Installed them on about 30 shrimp boats.  None were hit in the 5 years I 
owned the marine radio service company.
Other boats were hit during the same period.  (the same and other canneries).

That was good enough for me.

Norm N8NH

At 04:41 PM 3/19/05 -0600, Kelly Taylor wrote:
>If they work, then that's in conflict with studies by the IEEE, USAF, NASA
>and FAA.
>
>All of those organizations, in peer-reviewed papers subject to threat of
>lawsuit, concluded there was no value to the porcupines.
>
>I'm curious, what qualifications do you bring to the table that the U.S.
>military lacks?
>
>73, kelly
>ve4xt
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Norman Hockler" <norsan at bright.net>
>To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Porqupines
>
>
> > Because the needles are not really grounded.
> >
> > The original name of these static charge dissipators is spline balls.
> >
> > and they work.
> >
> > Norm N8NH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 07:07 PM 3/18/05 +0000, you wrote:
> > >They are supposed to prevent lightning hits.  Just think about this
>though,
> > >if porcupines dissipated enough charge to prevent lightning why would
> > >lightning EVER hit a pine tree that has many more sharp points on it, let
> > >alone anywhere near a huge pine forest!
> > >
> > >
> > >David Robbins K1TTT
> > >e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
> > >web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> > >AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> > > > bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8fu at aol.com
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 19:01
> > > > To: towertalk at contesting.com
> > > > Subject: [TowerTalk] Porqupines
> > > >
> > > > Whiles we're on the subject of lightning......................I notice
> > > > when
> > > > I'm in Fl all of the ag and weigh stations have what I believe are
>called
> > > > proqupines affixed to all of their radio twrs. Some as many as 6 or 8,
> > > > What's up
> > > > with that ??
> > > >
> > > > Froggy...........................K8FU
> > > > If CW is Outlawed....................Only Outlaws Will Have
>Keyers....
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