[TowerTalk] grounding elevated vertical for lightning?

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 9 19:18:02 EST 2013


On 2/9/13 12:43 PM, Mark Robinson wrote:
> Could he not also ground through an rf choke to bleed off static?
>
At first that's what I thought, but OP was looking for lightning 
protection.

And, if you wanted to operate top band, for instance, a choke that has 
high Z at 2MHz is also going to have high Z for lightning (which has a 
lot of its power around 1 MHz).  Even for 80m, it would be tricky..





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