Perhaps they are to dissipate local static charges, like the tinsel on the wing tips of airplanes, rather than protect from strilkes per se. They might prefer a slight, steady state, rise in system noise temperature, over something wildly varying.
-John ================= > Don Latham wrote: > >> Use of "brush" or radioactive lightning rods, as has been pointed out, >> is >> pointless and even dangerous. If you feel you have to experiment with >> such, at least just use a sort of ball of barbed wire rather than paying >> someone a small fortune for junk. Any "brush discharge" lightning rod >> only >> serves to protect itself, and not even that in the presence of wind. > > Curious, a quick tour of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab's satellite > dish > farm finds many instances of brush style lightning rods... > > They must all be wrong too! > > -Chuck Harris > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
