[TowerTalk] grounding elevated vertical for lightning?

[Gene Fuller]

Why not an RF choke for static drain/noise purposes across a spark gap for 
direct hit purposes ?
Gene / W2LU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] grounding elevated vertical for lightning?


> 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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