Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
I disagree with u, Dick, on two points at least: 1. routing coax thru PVC, I have seen two problems with this, one is water sitting in the pipe if it has any horiz. parts to it, and the other, bigger
Shouldn't this be prevented from happening if a ground wire (or better yet, low inductance flat ground strap) is run from the tower base along side (and burried below) the antenna cables and is termi
In a word not always...even having done all of that I have had the copper inside the RG-213 vaporised on its way to the nice ground...and it Still made it past the protectors and into the radio house
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> A nice low impedance path from the tower to the house won't ground anything, a nice wide surface area connection to earth will. Only with a very good ground. It's a ser
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> That's one reason why disconnecting the feedline and all other cables OUTSIDE the bulkhead is a good idea, especially if you can pull the cables back a few feet. Of cou
Let's see if we can start another holy war. It's been kinda quiet around here the last couple of days. " A nice low impedance path from the tower to the house" is a good start. Yes, it's not a 'groun
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Hi Steve, You are welcome to do that at your house, but I won't do that as a "rule" at my house or at most of the commercial installations I oversee. My closest tower i
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> No, read what I wrote below again. If it isn't clear, I'll try to explain it better. As explained in my paragraph above. Series impedance from common mode chokes PLUS t