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[TowerTalk] Grounding Unselected Tower Coax Switch

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounding Unselected Tower Coax Switch
From: dick@libelle.com (Dick Flanagan)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:48:29 -0800
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

--
Dick Flanagan W6OLD CFII Minden, Nevada DM09db (South of Reno)
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