My attention has just been drawn to the articles by Ron Block KB2UYT in QST June - August 2002 in which he says that the tower should be at least 25ft from the house to reduce magnetic coupling betwe
Hi Alan, Further is ALWAYS better...but there are QTHs where this isn't possible! ROHN for instance has HOUSE brackets for their tower...One doesn't strap those babies to trees! HI HI.. My tower is 3
In some cases closer may be better. Here in Florida I want my tower fairly close to the house so that I may benefit from the theoretical "umbrella effect" which the taller and more "attractive" struc
Ron Block is a "consultant" and he sells Polyphasers. I won't say if he is good at it, or bad at it, I don't know. I do know, that just about anyone can hang out a sign and declare themselfs a consul
I wonder if my steel house presents a greater or lesser coupling hazard? I am guessing the steel shell prevents the coupling ... ? doc -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e {| /\ {| / \ {| / \ {| / @ \ {| ==\ #
Sounds bogus to me. I had a tower mounted next to the house slab and bracketed to the eave. That tower was struck multiple times without any adverse effects. 73, Keith NM5G My attention has just been
Author: "Roger K8RI on Tower" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:09:51 -0400
I have two towers, One http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/tower.htm is about 10' from the corner of the garage. My Cat-5e gigabit network cable runs within 10' of the tower base. The second tower
If you live where there are potential ice storms you want the tower as far from the house as possible if for only one reason. Chunks of ice falling off the tower make a lot of noise when they hit the
Even little holes are Pains in the .... I don't have the problem with ice from antennas, but every year I am patching small holes in the roof made by falling tree limbs. Buck _______________________
Plus, you need to take into account what kind of antennas he's going to have on the tower (i.e. antennas for 50Mhz and above). You might be able to justify some of the "risks" so you can minimize the
This thread as become...well...funny in a way. First of all, most hams don't have towers that are tall enough to warrant an ice shield. Yea, I know about terminal velosity. Towers have been by houses
I also know about the towers that are situated right next to houses and the Rohn brackets that facilitate this. But it is possible, isn't it, that more is known about the behavior of lightning now th
towers I wouldn't go so far as to say that. The accurate way to say that would be.... I also know, that there are millions (literally) of towers put within 4-5 feet, if not closer, to homes, THAT HA
While this is true to a point for a larger tower, it still has nothing to do with lightning protection, which was the reason given for moving the tower 25 feet away from the house. _________________