Even the methods in that book are considered sub-standard by the broadcast industry... The only think that is a sure bet is to completely disconnect your radio and put it back in the shipping box.
Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ email: b...@wjschmidt.com -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2023 4:14 PM To: j...@kk9a.com Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] A dumb question about lightning https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiOk5PAqLKAAxUjEa0GHYmDBJgYABACGgJwdg&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAASJORo_AZEAzrEwZh7d0CRaunieFV8dsSC3IDZqsPWbucgX_uNKQ&sig=AOD64_1qxgTjvgwY4_QbQuPW5KxSnoObmA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiEsI3AqLKAAxViAjQIHe9mC-UQ0Qx6BAgOEAE 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 b...@wjschmidt.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
