[Elecraft] question about Elecraft receivers

Rick Dettinger k7mw78 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 23:54:34 EDT 2011


There are some exceptions like communication towers where it is known  
in advance that they will receive multiple hits over the years, and  
need to be engineered to survive.  And I can't even think about what  
it must have been like in a fire lookout tower during a storm.  I have  
seen the rods on each corner of the towers in the mountains of western  
Washington and the #4/0 copper stapled to the rock in the vicinity.  I  
understand that the lookout occupants had a special stool with glass  
legs that they sat on, feet off the floor, until the storm passed.   
Lightening is pretty much ignored in the lowlands of western  
Washington, but the Cascade Range is a different matter.  And, since  
the lookout towers were usually built on bare rock , ground is poorly  
defined.

73,
Rick Dettinger   K7MW



>
>
> A direct strike does pretty much what it wants to regardless of what
> prevention you have in.
>
> 73, Guy



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