On 6/6/98 7:38 AM, Tom Osborne at w7why@mail.coos.or.us wrote:
>Bill Coleman wtote:
>
>> Of course, lightning is dumb, and it doesn't understand theory - it
>> strikes where and when it wants....
>
>Not exactly. I saw a show on TV where they were shooting rockets with
>attached wires into storm clouds, and the lightning followed the wire
>back to the ground.
Yeah, this is what every tower-owner needs, a set of rockets which fires
off into a thunderstorm in order to draw lightning strikes away from the
tower....
Seems like putting in a full PolyPhaser installation would be cheaper.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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