Question on grounding (at the rig) - longish.

[Patrick]

I think that some of you fellows are trying to boil a three minute egg with 
a stop watch.

Pat
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles W. Morehouse" <w4gbw at BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [HEATH-TEMPE] Question on grounding (at the rig) - longish.


> Mel and All,
> Mel is correct in that in most of the US you can get away with minimal 
> lightning protection and be relative safe.
> But here in central Florida where I live you had better protect your 
> station to the max.  We have many violent thunder storms every year.
> I have been zapped several times.  Yesterday a 4 million dollar home just 
> south of me burned to the ground.  See national news.
> A couple of weeks ago a 12 mil home in Orlando that was under construction 
> burned.. What a shame as the owner was to move in in two weeks.
> Lightning is especially hard on golfers around here.  So if you live here 
> you might want to consider air terminals on your house also
> PolyPhaser has the best protection devices including the copper strap. AES 
> has them.  So you must decide how far you want to go.  Luck and 73.
> Wayne,
> W4GBW
>
> Mel Vance N7OKL wrote:
>
>>I am no expert...but....
>>
>>Every one keeps hounding on wide, flat copper strips and common ground 
>>point for every thing to improve station performance.....
>>
>>While the common ground point idea is great for protecting from a near 
>>strike from lightning, I have seen absolutely no improvement in transmit 
>>or received signal strengths and still get lots of RFI issues on both TX 
>>and RX.
>>
>>
>
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