At 12:51 PM -0800 on 3/21/98, I wrote:
>I am in the process of mounting an Ameritron remote coax switch at the top
>of my tower to select one of three antennas. One of the pre-installations
>options is to have unselected antenna outputs grounded. As shipped, they
>float.
>
>Grounding seems like such a logical choice, I am surprised they are shipped
>floating. Am I missing something? Is floating unselected antennas better
>than grounding them?!
I think more information may be necessary to make this decision. The
antennas to be switched are a TH11 yagi, 402CD yagi, 6M7 yagi and an
inverted V. The single coax feed will NOT carry any DC for preamps or
anything like that.
Does that help?!
73, Dick
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