[TowerTalk] FIRST TOWER & 2ND FLOOR SHACK --HELP

[N3AE]

I've read several suggestions that the coax shield should be bounded at the top AND at the bottom of the tower. This makes sense to me for all towers except crank-up towers. I would think that for a crank-up, the conductivity between sections is questionable (at least compared to a one piece tower). So by bonding the coax at the top and bottom, might that encourage most of the lightning current to use the coax shield as a path to the tower base? Thoughts? 


N3AE