[TowerTalk] Fwd: Interesting Site

[Patrick Greenlee]

YUP!  I know what you mean.  I was called a liar here by a frequent 
poster because his preconceived notions and lack of knowledge ran afoul 
of my personal observation.

Patrick        NJ5G


On 6/26/17 7:08 AM, ve4xt at mymts.net wrote:
> People will believe what they want to believe and will dismiss everything they don't want to believe as FAKE NEWS by the very dishonest media...
>
> 73, kelly, ve4xt
>
> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jun 26, 2017, at 06:47, Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh no, all u guys are wrong! I have had one of those on my 40 foot tower
>> and have never been struck by lightning...
>>
>> Chuck W5PR
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Don W7WLL <w7wll at arrl.net>
>>>> To: Towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
>>>> Sent: Sat, Jun 24, 2017 11:25 pm
>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting Site
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ran across this looking for something else and noticed a section on
>>>> towers, grounding and other items we are all interested in. Sample article.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.thebdr.net/articles/steel/twrs/TT-dissipators.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Don W7WLL
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