A CME will/should only affect objects larger than ~20 meters. It may not effect the equipment, and the tower should already be grounded.
The only way to preotect the equipment diffrently, would be taking it off of the tower. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, St. Louis Broadband <li...@stlbroadband.com> wrote: > Sorry for the Scifi thread but we know that this has happened in the past > when we had very few birds in the air and were not as dependent on this > equipment. > > Since we are now witnessing the Sun going into a Solar Maximum and some > amazing filaments that NASA seems to be concerned about, I have a question > about protecting radio equipment. > > I recently saw a video of a fellow protecting his vehicle by removing the > battery and bolting both the +/- cables together grounding the vehicle. > > Is there a way to ground a tower and equipment attached to the tower this > way? > Of course a big faraday cage is what we would need...lol, but that is not > too rational. > Is there a way to create some sort of drop dead switch to protect the gear? > > Victoria Proffer > www.StLouisBroadband.com > 314-974-5600 > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
