[TowerTalk] Is lightning hitting the tower..or the yagi's

[K1TTT]

> 
> Although I have no qualitative data to support this theory, the thought is
> that the tall tower and antenna elements dissipate to ground static
> charges in the vicinity of the tower, reducing the effect of enough static
> energy to build up for a strike. I have 27 ground rods under my tower and

sorry, no... the QUANTITATIVE data collected by lightning researchers says
the taller the tower the more strikes it gets.


David Robbins K1TTT
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