[TowerTalk] lightning protection at towers and bunkers on former AT&T microwave relay sites

[jimlux]

On 5/20/17 4:29 AM, Dave Sublette wrote:
> The he article I recall was about the FAA.  They did an extensive test, comparing many of their sites that used this device to many of their sites that did not use it.  The results were that there was no clear evidence that the device prevented lightning strikes as advertised.  Try google for FAA testing of lightning suppressor or some such working.
>
Somewhere there's actually a nice photo of lightning striking one of the 
devices at Cape Canaveral.

The seller used to (and may still) claim "as used by NASA", but in 
reality, that's because NASA went out and bought a bunch of different 
devices for testing.