It seems to work in my shack well. Anyone local ham here can tell you I
took a direct hit on a 2M G9 "while talking on it" and while the antenna
didn't make it the radio is still here in the shack today. The only only
thing I had to replace was the antenna and my underwear.
My Buss bars, ground ring and polys saved the radio. It doesn't take a
"big" budget. But I think we have beat this one to death.
73 Dave n4zkf
On 3/23/14 12:36 PM, "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>That experience counts for lightning protection of commercial
>installations with big budgets, setups that don't change, no local
>analog audio, and in a broadcast environment, balanced audio. But that's
>not most ham stations. We have limited budgets, we do everything
>ourselves, we change our setups as we try new things, buy new gear, have
>lots of stuff interconnected, like computers, rigs, amps, audio
>processors, SO2R boxes, and all of the interconnections are UNbalanced.
>Moreover, if it's FM broadcast, cellular, or VHF/UHF 2-way, most of
>those antennas are high in the air and have nulls in the direction of
>the equipment, whereas our antennas often produce significant field
>strength in our shacks.
>
>Those interconnections, especially analog audio, is one big reason why
>chassis-to-chassis bonding is far better than running individual wires
>to a common point (or bus bar).
>
>And there is nothing about that chassis-to-chassis bonding that is less
>good than individual wires to a common point. Remember that with those
>wires to a common point, we still have a loop to create magnetic
>coupling -- it's formed by the interconnections between the boxes and
>those long wires to the common point.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
>
>On 3/23/2014 8:44 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
>> Your experience is probably more relevant. Especially with reference
>>to commercial practice.
>>
>> My thing is more about the theory behind the recommendations, which is
>>often buried in the mists of history. Sort of like 468/f
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2014, at 3:53, n4zkf<towertalk@n4zkf.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >I didn't put a rover on mars but I do grounding on cell and broadcast
>>> >sites for a living working in telecom. Does that count?
>>> >
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