Tom Horne wrote:
Can anyone suggest a strategy for reasonably safe operation of a
station when lightning is actually present in the area. The stations
located at the weather service offices are used to receive real time
weather reports from AROs. If they go off the air during lightning
events the whole network becomes useless to the weather service.
Television and radio stations continue to operate even after direct
strikes to their antennas so it must be possible to provide protection
that does not involve shutting down when lightning is present. Can
anyone draw me a written sketch of how that gets done so that I can
make a more knowledgeable decision on whether or not to try to
replicate the technique.

Got to polyphaser's web site, read their white papers and contact them.
Between them and Trans-Tector (they recently merged), they do antennas and
power lines for things like air traffic control centers.

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM