[MLB-WIRELESS] Lightning protection?

[Andrew Tiltman]

Funny I was thinking the same thing about 2 hrs before the storm hit us here
in bayswater ;)
Because of the tree's here i'm going to need a pretty tall tower on my roof,
can you say lightning rod?

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: <lkhoo at csc.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lightning protection?


> After an eventful night with the weather last night (I live in Lilydale
and
> got pretty much flooded!) I started thinking about what would happen if an
> antenna used for wireless was hit by lightning?  I'm not very
knowledgeable
> in this area so I suppose this would apply to the average TV antenna also.
>
> Does anyone have any protection for their gear from this sort of thing? Or
> are the chances of a strike so slim that there is no point in doing
> anything?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lucas Khoo
>
>
>
>
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