** Reply to message from "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:27:21 -0600
> Good summary, Mike. We both talked around one fairly critical consideration
> and that's the telephone system. Every loss I've had here has been to
> equipment connect to either the phone line or the roof-top antenna. The UPS and
> a proper grounding scheme is useless if you open a hole in the protection for
> those two. Mother nature is gonna win if she wants to - the deck is stacked in
> her favor.
Verizon has installed fiber in my neighborhood so I expect that will reduce my
exposure to lightning on my phone lines since it only gets converted to wiring
once the signal is inside the house.
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