Dear Uwe and All,

Many thanks for your message that supports my own view.
Interesting that your father also advocated to leave the aerial floating.
That surprises me a bit because German broadcast transmitters in the
twenties and perhaps early thirties ended their daily transmission with the
warning "Bitte vergessen Sie nicht die Antenne zu erden!".

73, Dick, PA0SE

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Van: jannsen <[email protected]>
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Verzonden: woensdag 20 juni 2001 2:09
Onderwerp: Re: LF: Protection against lightning

Dick Rollema schrieb:
> To All from PA0SE
>
> Tom, G3OLB, wrote:
>
> >I suppose a better idea would be
> > to get into the habit of grounding the antenna when I leave the shack!
>
> When not in the shack I leave the aerial floating in the hope that it

will

> be charged to the voltage potential of its surrounding so that lightning
> won't  "see" it.
> Or is that a misconception?
>
> When grounded it could act as a lightning conductor and it certainly

can't

> stand up to a stroke without causing heavy damage.
>
> 73, Dick, PA0SE
>
>
>
Hi Dick es all,
I`m 30 years on the "wireless" - job. I never grounded  lw - antennas,

neither

short ones nor long ones (400m straight or 1600m rhomboid). "after

operation you

have to disconnect lws (incl wire dipoles) from all equipments  but never

ground

them" was an order of my father. that makes an other plus 30 years of
experience. the vicinity of the end of the wire (feeder) must be free of

objects

for one metre.

the sense was, ungrounded antennas (litze) never go down in conductivity.

but if there are children or laymens (xyl) arround you have to ground

them!

regards
Uwe/dj8wx