Static drain chokes and ground rods should be SOP. The chokes drain static build up which usually prevents direct hits. The chokes are available from various broadcast suppliers.
On 7/30/12 11:40 AM, DAVID CUTHBERT wrote: > Bob, do you have ground rods for lightning? > > The stub should be ok for static discharge but not for near or direct > strikes. > > Dave WX7G > On Jul 29, 2012 7:04 PM, "Bob Kupps" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi in this thread I mentioned using a 1/4 wave shorted stub at the feed >> points of our 4 square for static drain. Since we want to farm the paddy >> land we will use a non-resonant counterpoise of 48 radials connected to a >> perimeter wire about 1.5m above the flooded ground. The only galvanic >> connection to earth would be back through the RG6 feed line to the center >> control box. So would adding an RF choke to the earth ground at the element >> base be a good idea in this case? Does anyone have any experience with the >> behavior of elevated radials in a lightning strike? >> >> 73 Bob HS0ZIA >> _______________________________________________ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >> > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
