[TowerTalk] Lightning

[Bill Winkis]

I have two of the "porcupines from the "Wireman", Press Jones (N8UG) 
on top of a 110' 45G.

One evening the kids came running in and said the tower was on fire...???

  And what we saw was bluish arcing on the Porcupines, I can only 
surmise that it was different potentials discharging.

Also I must add a thunderstorm was coming up..it was dark and you 
could taste the ozone in the air...even made the hair on my arm clingy ...

The protection for the tower is  a eight foot rock salt fed ground 
rod on each leg.

-Bill









At 12:09 AM 1/4/2007, K8RI on TowerTalk wrote:



> > Hi Again
> >
> > With talk about lightning protection, I recall seeing a site showing a
> > static dissipator that looked like a fuzzy ball, placed atop the tower. It
> > supposedly dissipates the corona charge on the tower so the lightning
> > doesn't strike the tower.  I kinda shrugged and passed on from it.  I
> > found
> > it while I was surfing for Rohn 45.
> >
> > It consisted of a brush made out of about 200 (says them) stainless steel
> > wires, crimped into a holder, each bent so that the resultant product
> > looked
> > kinda like a 'feather-duster'.
> >
> > Does anybody know what this product is called ?
>
>Deja vu?
>
>These come up on the reflector ... maybe a couple of times a year.
>The general consensus is they are a waste of money.
>
>Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
>N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
>www.rogerhalstead.com
>
> >
> > RoGrrr
> >
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