[TowerTalk] And one more thing.....

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:35:59 -0500, Gene Smar wrote:

>Those who are in lightning-prone areas may wish to shunt the boom 
>halves to the mast with suitable RF chokes,

When designing a discharge path, one must bear in mind that 
lightning is NOT DC, but rather an impulsive event with energy 
broadly centered in several octaves around 1 MHz. A choke that has 
too much inductance will be slow at bleeding the buildup of charge. 

73,

Jim K9YC