The tower is all steel so why wont the lightning hit the entire tower and guy ropes .Wether they are shorted to the tower or not a lightning hit will run through all the setup.I have had a VHF antenna hit with lightning and the tower was a1 ok and the antenna was blowen to pieces .All commercial communication towers here in aus are done with big earthing straps into the ground especially the anchors that are in concrete.
Thank You, Ian Wells, Kerinvale Comaudio, 361 Camboon Road.Biloela.4715 Phone 0749922574 or 0409159932 www.kerinvalecomaudio.com.au -------Original Message------- From: Nate Duehr Date: 13/03/2009 10:18:50 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Quieting duplex noise from a tower This fixes the RF problem, but creates a new one the guy anchors can now explode in a direct lightning strike if your shorting wires dont give up first if the lightning thinks the path down the guy wire looks better than others Nate WY0X From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups com] On Behalf Of kerinvale Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:28 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Quieting duplex noise from a tower
