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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] lightning protection at towers and bunkers on former AT&T microwave relay sites
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 05:24:43 -0700
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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.

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