> Certain radio and TV services need to operate 24/7 and can't shut down when > lightening threatens. Their grounding methods apparently prevent the towers > from being hit .
My experience as a 1st Phone running AM broadcast stations is that the towers _are_ hit by lightning. This was in the early '70s and all base insulated towers had a lightening arrestor across the insulator. Normally the transmitter would drop out momentarily. Most of the stations had two 833s for the the finals. Guess they can handle some abuse. Once I lost a selenium rectifier but that was most likely a power line hit ... Mark AD5SS ______________________________________________________________ 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
