Gary:
I have one of these baluns in the workshop. Used to use it to feed a 30M
inverted V, but took it down a few years ago.
The lightning arrestor/suppressor is nothing more than a thin piece of
aluminum strap that connects the eye-bolt at the top of the PVC shell of the
balun (a support rope threads through this eye-bolt) to a ground screw on the
SO-239 at the bottom. Basically a lightning strike will be conducted from the
eye-bolt safely to ground through the coax shield, rather than hitting the
dipole feedpoint just beneath the eye-bolt. Or so the theory goes.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
> Anyone familiar with and have experience with the W2DU baluns sold by
> UNadilla?
> Specifically the ones with the built in lightning arrestor? Will this short
> with
> a strike or
> is this not a problem? I was told it is actually not an arrestor rather it
> is a
> suppressor -
> bleeding off the charge... it will be at 140' and I do not climb so I need
> something there
> that should be reliable... comments? [not interested in a coax loop -
> thinking
> this balun
> for now]
>
> Gary
> K9RX
>
>
>
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