Recent thread on guying distance contained a comment
about lower guys having the weight of cables on them.
Am I the only one who sees this as bad practice?
feedlines need to run down the tower, and be decoupled
before the horizontal run to the shack. Same for control
wires for rotors and switches.
Not only is lightning ground an issue, the coupling of RF
into control lines and between antennas is.
I saw one instance of cables coming off the tower @ 10-12', but this
was along a messenger cable...and the feedlines were themselves
grounded to the tower and decoupled at the point where the
messenger cable tied to the tower.
N2EA
Jim Jarvis
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