[AMPS] Spark-plug gaps

[Tom Rauch]

Date sent:      	Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:36:31 -0500
To:             	amps@contesting.com
From:           	Chuck Counselman <ccc@space.mit.edu>
Subject:        	Re: [AMPS] Spark-plug gaps

> 
> Although I suspect it's beyond the capability of anything I could do, I'm
> open to suggestion.  What should I use for lightning protection on my
> open-wire line?
> 
> -Chuck W1HIS

Disconnect it outside the house, and have a gap some distance 
from the house a half inch wide or so.

I do this by nailing grounded copper flashing to a post. I bring the 
ladder line over an insulator on that post and form the flashing in a 
gap just below the line.

I can disconnect the line and let it lay loose on the house side of 
that post.

  
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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