[TowerTalk] How far from the house?

[Blake Bowers]

> If you live where there are potential ice storms you want the tower as 
> far from the house as possible if for only one reason.  Chunks of ice 
> falling off the tower make a lot of noise when they hit the roof over 
> your bedroom and if those ice chunks are large enough they make big 
> holes in your roof and ceiling.
> 

While this is true to a point for a larger tower, it still
has nothing to do with lightning protection, which
was the reason given for moving the tower 25
feet away from the house.