I built a people’s repeater and i’m working on setting up a place to mount it. It’ll be atop a steel pole around 20’ (6m) in the air. I am a bit worried about lightning. It won’t be the tallest thing around but i’d assume steel is more conductive than the tree next to it, so i’d like to set up a lightning rod.

The only issue is i don’t know what i’m doing. I got a grounding rod, grounding clamp, and bare copper wire, on the recommendation of someone at the hardware store, but i don’t really understand what to do with them that’ll actually stop my repeater from being struck in a storm.

So how does this work? Is lightning even something to worry about at all?