[TriLUG] OT: Lightning protection (was DTV transition and new ATSC frequencies)

[Neil L. Little]

yep, but those best practices will take you a long way. Know a fellow 
ham who lives up around Rolesville on top of a granite outcrop. That was 
solid granite below 6 inches of
soil. To put up fence posts in his back yard he had to drill into the 
rock for each and every post. He told me that anytime lightning struck 
anywhere within a 3 mile radius of
his house something would blow. It took him 5 years a Ufer ground and 
other things but now he can have a strike across the street and not 
worry. Yes best practices can go
a long way.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL

Jim Ray wrote:
> if mother nature wants to get you, she's going to do it. i have lost 2 phone systems in the last 9 years even with 12 AWG ground to relay rack, gas discharge surge suppressors on incoming phone lines and UPS.
>  
> there is no protection. only best practices.
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> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org on behalf of Mark Turner
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> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Lightning protection (was DTV transition and new ATSC frequencies)
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> Len Boyle wrote:
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>> Any thought on  lighting protection?
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> Best lightning protection tutorial you'll ever find:
> http://members.cox.net/pc-usa/station/ground0.htm
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> Mark
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