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Re: [TowerTalk] Lighting

To: <w2up@mindspring.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lighting
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:03:41 -0400
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
> Probably experience.  I believe it, to a degree.  Just
last week,
> there was a lightning hit to a wooden power pole about
1000 ft from
> my tower.  It blew a bunch of fuses and lihgtning
arrestors on the
> power lines, and we were out for about 3 hours.  To the
best of my
> knowledge, my well-grounded tower's never been hit and
it's the
> tallest thing for about 1000 ft in any direction.

Barry,

Are you saying the power pole with connections to a huge
power grid and all those ground wires at every pole in the
system isn't grounded or has a higher impedance than your
tower ground has?

73 Tom



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