It was interesting reading the Polyphaser rationale behind this and it makes sense. If your tower is hit, there will be lightning energy on both the outer shield of your coax and the inner conductor.
I was thinking about this again this morning while laying in bed waking up (no idea why - I guess I just have a twisted mind!). The original poster wanted a suppressor that would pass DC through the
I'll second Phil's comment! I took his advice a couple of weeks ago when I put mine up. I varied slightly from him. They make six pin trailer plugs as well. So I used a six pin and a 4 pin just so th
Don, Do these units have a DC short to ground at the antenna end? In other words, do you use a large inductor so that static is bled off the center of the coax. If so, then even though the supressor
Hi all, This past weekend, I was finally able to put up my Bencher Skyhawk beam that I'd purchased from another ham last spring. Now I have some questions! The beam is mounted at a height about 53 fe
I think I may have found part of my problem. Tonight I climbed the tower and inspected the feed to the Skyhawk. One of the feed straps coming from the balun was touching the outer part of the driven
From my understanding, the brake wedge was squared off beginning with the Ham-IV and after because the tapered, pointy edge in the ham-m and earlier were not as strong (that and the use of a stainles
Depends on how big the tower is. I have a 14 foot tower/tripod on my roof and it's been up there for years and has worked great. I used to have my HF beam on it, but since then I have put up 53 feet