Glen Zook K9STH also has good readings on grounding on his web page. They appear to be of good authority. Do a search for K9STH and it should appear.
Larry W0OGH -------------- Original message from Don Wilhelm <[email protected]>: -------------- > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
