[Boatanchors] Storm Damage to Electronics

[Rob Atkinson]

I figured the same thing and instead of grounding my 65 foot tall 1/4
w. 80 m. vertical I let it float above ground with a ball gap to
ground.

The Titan was no loss.   I pulled mine down 2 years ago and cut it
open and pulled out yards of that 8X coax they use, stuffed inside the
aluminum tubing with a dozen 180 degree hairpin bends in it almost
crimped looking and held with cable ties.  That's their matching stubs
stuffed into the tubing.  Once you see it you know why that antenna
doesn't work very well.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> One thing is for certain. There are as many answers as there are questions
> when it comes to 'ground' systems!
>
> I was told by one commercial antenna specialist who works on commercial
> AM/FM radio station antenna arrays that the better the path to ground, the
> greater the probability of a lightning strike. After all, lightning has a
> habit of taking the shortest path to ground.