Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station

摘要

Part 2―Last month, the author discussed the characteristics of lightning and the hazard if presents to the amateur, and presented a method of preparing a schematic of a protection plan. This installment shows us the type of protection to apply and how to design the protective installation, The process described in Part 1 of identifying the equipment to be protected can be applied to any item or set of electronic equipment. With some adjustment, it can be applied to tower-top electronics such as preamps or power amplifiers, to a computer installation in another room, a TV or a stereo system. The principle is the same: identify all of the electrically and proximally connected equipment, identify all of the I/O (input/output) lines, add protectors and ground. The theory is easy; it's the implementation that can be challenging.