On 16 Aug 2014 at 12:31, paul swed wrote: > I wonder why? And I complain about my antennas.
> It turns out that Cutler has a much-bigger-than-usual problem with > lightning... Well, apparently, first of all, Cutler is situated in what turns out to be an especially lightning-prone area of the country. Secondly, apparently the very high RF field "encourages" ligntning strikes to the antenna system. I read about this in a paper concerning the insulators used on that, and other, Navy antennas. The MTBF of failure for those insulators is phenomenal: something like 1700 years at worst-case. I'll try to find that paper again and post the link for those interested. Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John Wayne _______________________________________________ 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.
