[time-nuts] New NTBW50AA

[quartz55]

Well, I could try it down on the fence, but like I say when I get down there, I'm not sure the visibility above the trees is any better to the east and west because it's so much lower and the trees are all 80' high or more.  Add another 30-40' for the drop and you can see what I mean.  Like I say, it's a 200' drop from the house to the barn which is only 120 yards away.  I'm not thrilled having it above the beams, it's the highest metal thing in the area and most likely more prone to lightning than anything else excpet the trees and it will blow around a bit up there as well as rotating once in a while.  I did have a strike here once, but it was down by the barn and was looking for the underground telephone cables, it blew apart a post and knocked off the boards, it was maybe 100 yards from the shack.  It wouldn't be much of a problem to dig a tiny trench to the fence and I may try that after this precise survey is done, then do another and see if anything changes.  I could hide it in a bird box at the fence too.  After all at this point I'm just playing.  I'll eventually make up my mind.  Also, I don't have an attic, so that's not an option.

Dave
N3DT