Hi Al,
The "Bible" on this subject that has been used for many years by the
telecommunications industry is Motorola's "R56, Standards and Guidelines
for Communications Sites":
https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/Lands_ROW_Motorola_R56_2005_manual.pdf
It's kind of complicated, but it's what you have to do if you really
want to protect your site. Of special interest are Chapter 4 "External
Grounding (Earthing)", Chapter 5 "Internal Grounding (Earthing)", and
Chapter 7 "Surge Protective Devices".
Alan N1AL
On 7/28/2023 10:31 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
Please don't laugh at me; I'm a transplant from a region of the country with
essentially no lightning to a region where you have to worry about it quite a
bit.
We had a doozy of a storm last night, with lots of lightning overhead. I felt
like a sitting duck, even though I had grounded both sides of the balanced
feedline of the antenna, switched the antenna switch to the middle (grounded)
position, and even disconnected the coax leading to the K3's rear-panel antenna
port.
Whenever lightning happens, I always wonder if it really is in fact better to
ground everything. Because, doesn't that essentially make a lightning rod of
the antenna? If I simply disconnected the antenna and left it floating,
wouldn't it be less likely to attract a lightning bolt?
I'm of the belief that it's better to try to avoid a direct hit than to attract
one and trust your grounding system to do its thing. I'm of the belief that no
grounding system is perfectly effective.
Al W6LX/4
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