[TowerTalk] Verticals and well pipe grounding

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

It happened to my neighbor and he doesn't use the well for an antenna 
ground, he's not a ham
He's just a bit over 200 feet from my 100' tower with the array (then) 
exte4ndind another 30 feet.
It was a massive strike or strikes that had multiple hits at the same 
time.  They hit within about a180 arc
from my tower and a couple were about a 100 feet distance

One hit the pole (transformer) in front of his house.  They had a major 
loss that was almost all major
appliances including TV, hot water heater, and that well, yet that 
strike(s) apparently ignored my tower
with the massive ground system.

73,

Roger (K8RI)



On 2/5/2016 Friday 5:01 PM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
> Would hate to have lightning take out a submersible pump!
>
> Chuck W5PR
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>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 3:06 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
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>> At my previous location I tried tapping into my 60' of well casing and found
>> no difference in A/B testing of nearby verticals.
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>> Mike VE9AA
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>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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>> Keswick Ridge, NB
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73

Roger (K8RI)


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