[Antennas] Dumb question?

Mon May 18 11:25:23 EDT 2009

Joe K2XX:
The URL of the article you mention is:
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lhm/magic.pdf
It is, as you note, very well written. Nature seeks balance in everything. That is why water runs to the lowest level, the strong eat the weak, and lightning takes the best path it can find to equalize the charge when it strikes. I sometimes wonder if lightning protection should be either extremely well done or very poorly done to be successful. 
Here's what I mean. If you have a system that is effective in allowing Nature to balance dissimilarly charged patches of atmosphere and earth, then you dang well better have a wonderful way to handle the resulting strike that you will be likely to attract.
73,
Don N4KC
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