Comment on Please describe the lightning protection for your amateur radio station and specifically whether you use "lightning arrestors" (with or without the belief they will arrest the lightning).

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• K3LOE@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fair warning, this rabbit hole goes deep … very deep!

  I haven’t met a shallow ham hole yet!

  laws and requirements for grounding (and associated lighting protection) vary across the globe and within a country

  Yes, was curious to get an international picture of practices here…

  your best bet is a locally licensed electrician or better yet, one who is also an amateur.

  Fair enough, you’ve inspired me to at least ask my club if we have an amateur electrician in the area. I do have a pretty simple station, however, so I had planned to do this myself.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think we need to clarify you want a PROFESSIONAL electrician who’s also a RADIO amateur.

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    • K3LOE@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right, just a typo.

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Indeed.

      I concede that my wording could be open to interpretation.

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s likely no difficult to actually do, just determining what’s required and permitted.

    Your club is a good starting point.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In my opinion your best bet is a locally licensed electrician or better yet, one who is also an amateur.

  Wait, is he supposed to hire a pro or not? You can’t have it both ways!

  😜

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes

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• vomitproject@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes. Subscribed. I want to hear more. I work in transit signaling. Lightning and transit voltage protection. So many variables with traction power but also lightning. Sounds interesting.

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