[Moon-net] Lightening protection GUARANTEED

[N6FD]

If you don't want to go to all that trouble, you can get Nixalight 
phosphor bronze bird repellent strips.  They consist of many thin, 
pointed spikes mounted on a strip.  It is designed to prevent birds from 
landing on various surfaces.  Should work in this situation as well.  As 
an added benefit, you won't have birds sitting on your antenna there either.

Erich N6FD

steve gross wrote:
> Hello Gentlemen
>
> I lived in the thunderstorm capital of the america for years. I was hit 
> often until I discovered a solution which is an expansion of the lightening 
> rod idea.
>
> It consists on a shallow, round cone in the shape of an umbrella at the very top of all my towers. It hangs downward from the very top of the mast.
>
> I get a piece of 3 foot by three fot hardware cloth with 1/2 inch mesh.
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> It's galvanized metal screening.
>
> I cut a 3 foot diameter disc out of it and then remove a pie shaped section
> so that it can be formed into a shallow cone later.
>
> THE TRICK THAT MAKES IT WORK IS THIS.
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> WITH A PAIR OF WIRE CUTTERS, PLAN TO SPEND HOURS CUTTING AS MANY OF THE WIRes AS YOU CAN AND WITH LONG NOSED PLIERS, BEND THEM UPWARD.
> Leave enough intact so it won't fall apart.
>
> YOU NOW HAVE A SHALLOW UMBRULLA OF SORTS HANGING FROM THE VERY TOP OF THE V=
> ERTICAL MAST WITH HUNDREDS OF SHARP WIRES POINTED UPWARD.
>
> I've seen them in commercial use on the interstate highways in the USA at 
> the truck inspecion stops. They place them on lamp posts around the inspection stations.
>
> TRUST ME! iT WORK.
>
> Slip it over the top of the mast and secure it with a hose clamp and use some sort of horizontal piece across the bottom, open end,of the cone to tie it to the mast with a "U" bolt.
>
> It dissapates the leader stroke which preceeds the main lightening strike.
>
> I've had them on all y towers for ten years and haven;t had a strike since.
>
> It's flimsy and not a work of art, but it works.
> Steve N4PZ      
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