This topic has been discussed too may times and there seems to be nobody with a
definite answer. I have dissipators on my own tower. They are rather easy to
make. I haven't gotten any lightning strikes in them during the few years the
tower been up. That doesn't mean they are effective. I have notice that I have
had no strikes on my house, something that happened on a relatively regular
basis, since the tower went up. I think the tower itself was the contributing
factor to that, though.
I had a 0-0, stranded aluminum cable at hand when I raised the tower and
decided to put three, one on each leg, of them up. You can view they on my
facebook page. Does it work? Honestly, I have no idea. I do think that you can
build these dissipators yourself for a much lower price than what they are
offered at.
With 73 de,
Hans - N2JFS/SM6BXX
-----Original Message-----
From: Don W7WLL <w7wll@arrl.net>
To: Towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 24, 2017 11:25 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting Site
Ran across this looking for something else and noticed a section on towers,
grounding and other items we are all interested in. Sample article.
http://www.thebdr.net/articles/steel/twrs/TT-dissipators.pdf
Don W7WLL
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