[Lowfer] MP in CT

[ashorn]

Kitty litter around the ground rods will do wonders.
The cheaper the better, try to find the main ingredient,
bentonite clay.  It adsorbs moisture at a very good rate
effetely increasing your ground conductivity around the
ground rod.

Of course you will have to dig out the hole around
the ground rods.

Had the same problem here, lighting kept taking out
my well pump.  I reground the utility pole on my own.
Added another rod, added three rods at the utility panel
for the house.  No hits in 5 years, now that I said that POOF !


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ashlock" <ashlockw at hotmail.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] MP in CT


>> No cropping needed. He has an "mW" antenna that he combines with his 
>> regular antenna. Voila -- no "Wm".  JA
>
> Then he has a lot more understanding that I do as to which signal, the Wm 
> or the mW, is coming from that site :) . Every time there's a thunder 
> storm, and there's a quick power interruption, the darn thing reverses.
>
> I'm still trying to come up with an effective way to kept the high power 
> surges, resulting from lightning hitting the power lines, from snapping 
> across the pump pressure switch and then finding a good ground at the 
> submersible pump, 210 ft down. Eventually there will be a failure of 
> either the pump motor or the pressure switch, maybe keeping the pump on 
> all the time and flooding the little cabin (built on a concrete slab and 
> very tightly constructed). Maybe there's some help out there?
>
> Last week I was, again, startled by a loud pop from the direction of the 
> pressure switch. Approx a second  later was the clap of thunder. This 
> computes to a quarter mile and indeed my friend a quarter of a mile away 
> reported seeing his utility pole receive a good bolt. There are ground 
> wires leading from the top conductor (the neutral of the 7200v line) on 
> most of the poles in that area but the ground conductivity is so poor that 
> they don't do a lot of good. Apparently it's a differential mode spike 
> making its way through the transformer, near the road, that steps down the 
> 7200v line to 120/120v because my new #8 ground wire running between the 
> neutral line at the breaker box and the well casing hasn't been effective. 
> Was thinking about adding a spark gap or a large MOV between both sides of 
> the line and the ground connection to the casing.
>
> Bill
>
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