I have always maintained that the majority of lightning damage comes in the power line.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 27, 2020, at 6:46 AM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So I was thinking. And I don’t know if this is a pointless idea or not. > > Lightning strikes happen because of potential differences. Besides the > instances where equipment is blown up (direct strike) usually what I see is > indirect strike where the Ethernet port of the radios just dries but there is > no physical damage visible. > > Obviously the radio into the tower became a better path than the shielding of > the cable into the ground system. > > Would there be any merit to running tower sites in generator and > disconnecting them from the grid during severe storms? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
