This has been an interesting discussion.
Some years ago, while working on telecom digital loop equipment, I came
across an REA handbook on-line that said running vulnerable conductors
through iron pipe some feet long at a building wall reduced the current
making it indoors; even a little inductance is effective if the source
impedance is low enough.
And it might keep the fire from spreading if those wires exploded in the
pipe!
Cortland
KA5S
On 7/2/2012 1310, dalej wrote:
> I suspect during a direct strike the coax would be vaporized so loops
> probably won't do much. It was a way to take care of extra coax up there. I
> always like to have a little more in case I make changes, which I do from
> time to time. If you go to my QRZ page and arrow down you can see the
> antennas and the loops. The cover page they aren't installed because that
> picture is old, like me :)
>
> I'm learning a lot with this discussion about mother nature's sparks and how
> to properly ground a tower.
>
> 73
> Dale, K9vuj
>
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