The Basic Lightning
Event Simulator (BLES) is a software tool to allow you to vary the physical
site layout parameters and observe the impact of such changes on the amount
of lightning energy delivered to the radio equipment during a lightning
strike event.
The BLES implements the calculations for
a free-standing (self supported) tower as presented in Chapter 1 of the
PolyPhaser publications Lightning Protection and Grounding Solutions for
Communications Sites and The "Grounds" for Lightning and EMP
Protection.
A guyed tower version of the BLES will
be offered in the future.
Each of the following parameters may be
independently varied:
