[TowerTalk] Grounding

[Richard Smith]

 Is there any value in the idea to put up some kind of structure, fairly far away from your antennas, and design it so that it has a better lightning path to ground than your towers and antennas?  Could it draw lightning strikes away from your towers and antennas?
Trying to think outside the box...
73, Rich, N6KT
    On Thursday, September 5, 2019, 06:43:27 AM PDT, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:  
 
 Lightning is very good at finding a path to ground. make it a more
desirable one.

John KK9A
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:37 AM Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had everything disconnected but the ground and a clock on top of an amp.
> Lightning surge came through the power lines, through the clock and in to
> the amp on its way to ground.
> Now I disconnect the ground.
>
> Chuck W5PR
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:01 AM <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
>
>> What ground?  Do you use a seperate ground going from your radio
>> chassis to a ground rod? I have my equipment bonded together but no RF
>> ground and no RFI issues.
>>
>> John  KK9A/4
>>
>>
>> K9MA wrote:
>>
>>
>> My theory has always been that, with the station equipment well bonded
>> together, it is safe to leave the ground connected, as long as
>> EVERYTHING else is disconnected. That leaves no path for current to flow
>> through anything. I can disconnect the transmitting antennas with one
>> coax, all the control cables and rx antennas with another big connector,
>> and power with one 120 and one 240 V plug. That just leaves the ethernet
>> cable, which I try not to forget.
>>
>> In any case, my primary goal is to prevent a fire, and disconnecting the
>> ground from the equipment probably wouldn't help there. I hope I never
>> have to test that theory.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Scott K9MA
>>
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