🚀 go-pugleaf

I feel that excessive flaming is inappropriate for technical discussions,
especially if you didn't look up the facts.

Lightning protection systems are quizz material for ham-licenses (at
least in Germany). The basic purpose of such systems (reqired for most
out-door antenna installations) is damage control in case of a lightning hit
by providing a safe, well defined path to ground. You can't do much about
being hit, but you can make sure that your equipment and you body is out of
the current path.

A 10 mm^2 copper cable (solid core, you need more if it is stranded) can
carry the current of a lightning discharge safely (no red-hot BS). About
80 mm^2 of iron cable is needed to do the same job (higher resistance, but
cheaper).  Layout, grounding systems, contact point to water-pipes,
electrical installation, test-points etc. are not trivial because the high
current transient will induce high voltages on nearby conductors.

  --  Andreas