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Welcome to the Bible of grounding. It’ll take several reads to grasp what you have to do. 73, Rick NK7I > On Jul 28, 2023, at 2:11 PM, j...@kk9a.com wrote: > > I would recommend that you follow proper lightning bonding/grounding > techniques, these are the only methods that work. My tower has taken a > number of lighting strikes. You cannot prevent a lightning strike. Simply > disconnecting your feedling will not prevent damage inside your house as the > voltage from a strike will be induced into your home's electrical wires. > > John KK9A > > > Al Lorona W6LX wrote: > > > Please don't laugh at me; I'm a transplant from a region of the country with > essentially no lightning to a region where you have to worry about it quite > a bit. > > We had a doozy of a storm last night, with lots of lightning overhead. I > felt like a sitting duck, even though I had grounded both sides of the > balanced feedline of the antenna, switched the antenna switch to the middle > (grounded) position, and even disconnected the coax leading to the K3's > rear-panel antenna port. > > Whenever lightning happens, I always wonder if it really is in fact better > to ground everything. Because, doesn't that essentially make a lightning rod > of the antenna? If I simply disconnected the antenna and left it floating, > wouldn't it be less likely to attract a lightning bolt? > > I'm of the belief that it's better to try to avoid a direct hit than to > attract one and trust your grounding system to do its thing. I'm of the > belief that no grounding system is perfectly effective. > > Al W6LX/4 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to rick.n...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
