Guy, That is the reason I put a perimeter wire around my house with a ground stake every place the wire makes an abrupt turn. That wire provides any lightning surge with a lower impedance path than that which it might find by blowing a hole through the foundation wall.
In my opinion, definitive information on lightning protection and station grounding was written by Ron Block, and can be found on the PolyPhaser website - it was also published in a 2 part series in QST some years back - it should be available to ARRL members on the ARRL website. Those articles convinced me that the perimeter wire was the best thing I could do. 73, Don W3FPR Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > One thing that often gets missed is that a house with its foundation > system or basement can be a conduction barrier in the path of the > surge's dissipation pulse. If there is a miscellaneous conduction path > through/under the house, you want it to be a good one where detours up > to sensitive equipment is out of the way and unattractive to the > surge. > > 73, Guy. > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
