I've been fighting the urge to wade in on this thread since its inception. Must be the low pressure warm front/rain making me do it. Not to mention the rumbling going on outside... OK...there are exp
Yes it's ICE (their website via the Array Solutions website) and Polyphaser. To me, they are the only players (may be others) in the lightning/grounding market. Personally I use all ICE equipment and
bleed off Can you explain how it would do that Jim? Unless polyphaser is presenting bad data that idea has been clearly disproved. It also appears even manufacturers of the "bleed-off" devices have
A question on the lightning issue: Does anyone know if there is any benefit to routing the cabling from tower to house underground using a direct bury grade of cable? I thought it might encourage dis
I've been led to believe that this may help; the energy may zap through the coax/wire jacket/insulation into the ground. This may also be bad in that if it's direct burial stuff, you'll need to repla
Dear anonymous: Absolutely route your cable underground if possible. But first, ensure that you have connected the coax shield to the tower at the bottom and at the top. In this way you'll divert the
I think going underground is a smart move for two reasons. First, it eliminates an overhead run which can be annoying at times when handling large items at the base of the tower. Second, there is les
I have heard and read about grounding the coax to the tower at both ends of the cable. However, there is apparently a way for huge amounts of voltage to get past this ground point and make its way to
At 02:56 PM 7/28/2004 +0000, you wrote: Yes it's ICE (their website via the Array Solutions website) and Polyphaser. To me, they are the only players (may be others) in the lightning/grounding market
At 02:04 PM 7/28/2004, Keith Dutson wrote: some folks make a full run of coax from antenna to shack entrance, with no barrel connectors in between, to reduce signal loss, particularly at 6 meters and
It's not advice. It's a statement of fact. Keith above. Before jumping on this last bit of advice, people would be well advised to search the Towertalk archive for "connector" and "loss", because the
At 03:46 PM 7/28/2004, Keith Dutson wrote: It's not advice. It's a statement of fact. But that doesn't mean it's technically justified. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated
Correct. But that doesn't mean it's technically justified. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated on June 5, 2004 2728 contest stations at www.pvrc.org/WCSD/WCSDsearch.htm __
"There are reports from trained observers...amateurs with multi-tower installations...who have observed storms with frequent cloud to ground lightning, where that lightning ceased when near the anten
Just curious, how is the telco connection done in the states ? What is there to connect to a single point ground? Here in SM it is just two wires coming to the house from the telephone pole, no scree
Pretty much the same here. 600 ohm balanced pair to the house. But if you were to add a surge suppressor to the lines, like the old carbon blocks or MOVs, or whatever, you would want to do it near th
Just curious, how is the telco connection done in the states ? What is there to connect to a single point ground?>> In the USA, all installations come to an entrance box that has either shunt and ser
At 09:03 AM 7/29/2004, Tom Rauch wrote: A single ground wire from the shunt protection is clamped to the power line ground. This is the national code. Illustrative of the difficulties of doing the si
"I would have to trench in a perimeter ground, per Polyphaser recommendations, before anything else would begin to make sense." this is exactly what i have to do , the main service entrance (phone an
I have a similar problem in my 110 year old Chicago house -- telco on the northeast side of the house, power on the southeast. Last I looked, code says that all grounds must be bonded together. It is