[TowerTalk] Fwd: Interesting Site

[David Gilbert]

A good indication of the voodoo "science" involved in that link is the 
fact that he built it with 500 (!) points.  Ask yourself what 500 sharp 
points would do that a few pointed different directions wouldn't.  In 
fact, pack enough points grouped close together and you make the static 
field effect approximate a smooth sphere.

I'm always amazed that a hobby like ours, supposedly based in physics 
and the real world, perpetuates so much garbage like this ... especially 
when there are much more rigorous studies readily accessible out there 
on the internet to debunk it.

Dave   AB7E



On 6/25/2017 2:32 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
> This topic has been discussed too may times and there seems to be nobody with a definite answer. I have dissipators on my own tower. They are rather easy to make. I haven't gotten any lightning strikes in them during the few years the tower been up. That doesn't mean they are effective. I have notice that I have had no strikes on my house, something that happened on a relatively regular basis, since the tower went up. I think the tower itself was the contributing factor to that, though.
>
> I had a 0-0, stranded aluminum cable at hand when I raised the tower and decided to put three, one on each leg, of them up. You can  view they on my facebook page. Does it work? Honestly, I have no idea. I do think that you can build these dissipators yourself for a much lower price than what they are offered at.
>
> With 73 de,
>
> Hans - N2JFS/SM6BXX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don W7WLL <w7wll at arrl.net>
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> Sent: Sat, Jun 24, 2017 11:25 pm
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting Site
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> Ran across this looking for something else and noticed a section on towers, grounding and other items we are all interested in. Sample article.
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> http://www.thebdr.net/articles/steel/twrs/TT-dissipators.pdf
>
> Don W7WLL
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