[TowerTalk] Porqupines

[Gary Schafer]

I am in South Florida where many boats get hit by lightning.
I always carried a rabbits foot on my boat. Never did get hit by 
lightning. Not ever.
That is the best deterrent available.  See my proof!

73
Gary  K4FMX

Norman Hockler wrote:
> 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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>>
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