A fiberglass antenna will probably not survive a lightning strike, no matter what you do with grounding. What you really want to do is protect the remaining equipment. I suggest you go to http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/ and start reading up. There's a ton of info there - including grounding.
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "agrimm0034" <agrimm0...@yahoo.com> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 12:34 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] DC Ground Lightning Protection on antenna???? >I bought a nice looking RFS Celwave antenna to use on 462.600 Specs are DC >ground for lightning protection but is there something I need to do to make >sure it is protected? It sits on 3 legged tower 40 ft up and the tower is >mounted on the side of a structure. It sets on 3 pieces of galvanized pipe >that are set in concrete. Overall the tower is grounded just not as good as >what I could make it be. If I ran a grounding rod into the ground and ran >#8 or heavier wire to the tower would I just be wasting my time to protect >the antenna or what should I do to make sure everything is protected ok. >Thanks >
