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" ... I Wanted to tell you about one storm that came roaring into town. The weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area, and the storm track looked like it was going to head directly over us. I was watching the storm as it approached from a window that overlooks the swamp where our antenna system is located. Lightning was all around, when all the sudden there was a tremendous flash, and a bolt of lightning struck the ground about a thousand feet behind our antenna array system. Our continental transmitter cycled off, then back on, and continued on. I thought we been struck, but investigations of ATU's afterwards, showed no signs of lightning damage.

Our ALS systems have been in place for over 6 years now. I'm not sure how many direct strikes were averted, but from our experience, they are well worth the investment."

"An evaluation of data from several users offered convincing imperial evidence of the effectiveness of the ALS- 3000 system in preventing lightning attachments. Based upon these reports, we recommend incorporation of the ALS-3000"

"... Over the years we've sustained lightning damage to our communication equipment. However, since the installation of the ALS-3000 we have not experienced Any strikes to the protected tower."

" We installed the ALS-6000 along with extensive ground radials. The manufacturer supplied us with references from users which we checked out. All were very positive as to the effectiveness of the system in eliminating lightning strikes. I observed the tower through one storm, and there where no strikes. So far it appears that the system is doing what it was designed to do."

The continued success and extreme effectiveness of the ALS static dissipater is predicated on several aspects of its construction. Thorough testing and engineering evaluation established that the basic design, manufacturing of the ALS 100 and 1000 static dissipaters provide distinct advantages for lightning protection. Distributed energy dissipation is the basis on which the ALS was designed. The ALS core consists of four twisted conductors along which the dissipation points emanate. This technique distributes the energy along that core. This unique and most important feature of the ALS style dissipater achieves a high degree of efficiency by providing the static charge a path of low resistance and high conductivity. The ALS provides more points of dissipation for a given area not available in any other configuration.

To augment its superior lightning prevention capability, the ALS eliminates frequent noise in radio transmissions caused by static accumulation and discharges occurring on antenna radiation elements. This was revealed at the inception of the dissipaters design, and was recognized by radio engineers as the "Husher" When properly installed, these small charges are dissipated through the ALS before reaching the antenna. This provides a much clearer, sharper effective signal transmission from any type of antenna.

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