[TowerTalk] Shack ground

[Pete Smith]

On 6/18/2010 8:51 PM, jimlux wrote:

"Ethernet is galvanically
isolated, typically with at least 2000V or 5000V isolation)"

Maybe so, but don't rely on it.  I took a direct hit on my tower with all ham radio conductors disconnected.  Only damage in the house was a telephone answering machine AND both computers and the router in a wired Ethernet system.  Needless to say, my home network is all wireless now.



73, Pete N4ZR

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