[BC] Transmitter Safety

[DHultsman5 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/29/2008 7:49:40 AM Central Daylight Time,  
curt at spam-o-matic.net writes:

Not  necessarily !
Wind can build some vicious charges *very*  quickly.

Many tower-convicts believe the snaps and shocks they  subject
themselves to are the result of another near-by station when, in  fact,
it's the wind.
Doesn't take much of a breeze to throw  fire.



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When we were building the 12 tower at KLIF in Dallas, for a period of time  
only two towers were illuminated. the remaining towers were all floating.
 
One late afternoon in the Fall a front was coming thru and one of the young  
engineers on site with me came in and said the towers were make a  "crackling 
noise".   I went out, as it was getting near twilight, and  as the sun set you 
could see the chrages jumping the guy insulators going to  ground.  There 
were no ball gaps or static drains connected to the  towers.
 
One of our projects was to ground each tower to avoid the charges building  
up until we installed the ball gaps and networks which included static drain  
chokes.
 
Dave



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