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Re: Topband: Rotator Potentiometer shunt fed twr

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Subject: Re: Topband: Rotator Potentiometer shunt fed twr
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:17:22 -0700
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On 8/23/2020 2:39 PM, Phil Duff wrote:
Aren't most rotors and their masts normally grounded thru the rotor body and mast clamp & mounting bolts to their tower/support?

Antenna current at the joint between the two pieces of the rotator is a common source of IMD, as first articulated by W3LPL (although he calls it something else).

73, Jim K9YC
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