Apptech wrote:
> A long shot, but easy enough to try if there's enough cable 
> slack somewhere.
> Wind cable in a loop of about 1 foot diameter and a few 
> turns.
> Seems unlikely that it would work in this case but ... . 
> "Real" lightning strikes do not like to transit such an 
> arrangement and tend to blow through the insulation to local 
> ground somewhere on the coil. Calculations of inductance and 
> impedance to not suggest that such an arrangement should 
> work. Various real world reports suggest it actually works. 
> It MAY be that the rise time of the signals concerned would 
> be similarly affected. You MAY be getting local sub 
> flashover discharges, but these would not have the same 
> characteristics of a real strike.
>
>
>
>         Russell
>
>   
wrap it around a grounded iron pipe perhaps? increase the inductance and 
give it a handy exit path.
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