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Re: [TowerTalk] Coax Grounding on a tower.

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax Grounding on a tower.
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:35:12 -0400
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The lowest price I have been able to find for these kits is about $34 each.  DX 
Engineering wants $42 and change.  Andrew makes grounding kits that are around 
$10 at TESSCO, but you have to engineer your own dissimilar metals protection - 
I have been very happy with stainless steel shims between copper wire and the 
galvanized surfaces of my tower.

Perhaps there's something wrong with this idea, but why not fabricate a bracket 
to bolt to your tower top and bottom to mount the required number of UHF 
barrels, providing a solid low-inductance ground path for the cable shields?  
Your rotator loops should probably be replaceable anyway, and well taped 
connectors should not pose a reliability problem.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 04:18 PM 6/27/2006, Alan NV8A wrote:


>On 06/27/06 02:40 pm K8RI on Tower talk wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>>> Did you consider the Polyphaser grounding kits? AFAICS from the
>>> literature, you strip off the outer jacket, clamp one end of the copper
>> 
>> I'd never heard of them. I'll have to look into them if I can find the 
>> information.  I've been reluctant to cut the jacket any place to make up 
>> something like this, but the Polyphaser might be just what I'm looking for.
>
>All basically the same except for the metal to which they are designed 
>to connect at each end:
>
>http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerce_productdetail.aspx?item=UNI-KIT-2TC
>
>http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerce_productdetail.aspx?item=UNI-KIT-2TT
>
>http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerce_productdetail.aspx?item=UNI-KIT-2CC
>
>http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerce_productdetail.aspx?item=UNI-KIT-2CT
>
>73
>
>Alan NV8A
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