[TowerTalk] Grounding Unselected Tower Coax Switch

[Leikhim, Joe]

My satellite antenna system passes DC along the coax to a preamplifier.
In some configurations, a coaxial switch that grounds inactive ports is
undesireable. For example if the switch were to be used to select one
antenna between several transceivers.

Dick Flanagan 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?!
> 
> 73, Dick
> 
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