[TowerTalk] Fwd: Static Discharge Porcupines?

Big Don bigdon39 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 00:05:44 EDT 2015


Famed Brazil Christ statue has multiple spines visible 45 sec into video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e09W-CBGBA
But sounds like they are still getting hit....
Don  N7EF

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <
towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

> One sample is no statistic but I put up three "discharge" devices on my
> tower of my own design, each a short piece of 7 wire conductor, each with
> the wires spread apart on top of my tower.
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> I live in a high risk area (and lost my house due to a lightning strike
> 1998).
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> So far I have had not strikes, to my knowledge, in my tower and my "corona
> brushes" are intact.
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> I can't tell if they really works or it is or if it is "snake oil and bat
> wing powder". Time might tell but I hope not.
>


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