What is best practice for lightning protection of elevated radial verticals?
Grant KZ1W _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
A lengthy thread re grounding on towertalk prompts me to have concerns
about protection of my T top (85' to top plus two 33' top wires) wire
160m vertical with eight 125' elevated radials. Since that covers more
than an acre (it's mostly among 100' tall conifers) it has a lot of
target area, radial routing close to trees, and high ground
capacitance. I did DC ground the vertical via a 3 core 240-31 choke,
about 5k ohms to a single ground rod but that was for static protection
of radio front ends. The antenna is fed via a 50:25 ohm TLT so the
radials have a DC connection to the choke.
