[Lowfer] Causes, Lightning/ESD problem.

[Ed Phillips]

KD7JYK wrote:
> 
> Three things I can think of off the top of my head.  Lack of humidity, it
> hovers between 25 - 35%, lots of silica in the earth and winds in excess of
> 100 MPH at times and regularly between 25 - 50 MPH.  Many is the time weekly
> I see birds blowing sideways faster than I am driving, usually 45 - 50 on
> that seciton of road.
> 
> I am looking primarily to bleed off opposing charges rather than provide a
> striking point but should a strike occur, the point needs to handle it.  I
> am grounding and providing protectors on some of my equipment in the
> meantime, I may set up one tower with a chimney brush on top and see what
> happens, in fact I'll put it on the mast in the photos I posted, that would
> be a good test.
> 
> I bought some lighting prevention/protection parts this afternoon, I'll
> upload a photo when I get those assembled.
> 
> Kurt

	One of the Southern California hams (Earle ?) who excelled on 160
meters lived up in the desert (Antelope Valley).  He built a fabulous
counterpoise system by putting out a lot of ground radials and adding to
and interconnecting them whenever he picked up scrap wire from any
source.  I never saw his setup but those who did said it was awesome and
growing all the time.  Only a maniac would go to all of that work!  Of
course, to punch out LF signals acroos the Atlantic and Pacific takes a
bit of dedication and mania too.........

Ed