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Jack Painter wrote:
"---explain the term "Common mode lightning"." A folded monopole or another antenna with a 1/4-wave short-circuited stub across its drivepoint is a low impedance except at resonance. At other frequencies containing most of the lightning energy, the exposed antenna is a short to the grounded tower. At the resonant frequency, the same voltage with the same polarity is imposed on both the center conductor and the inside of the coax shield. Inside the coax, currents in one conductor induce opposing and near equal currents in each other, cancelling. It worked for me in hundreds of locations over decades of time including countless lightning strikes to what was often the most exposed and salient structure for miles around. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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