[TowerTalk] Re: your mail

K7LXC@aol.com K7LXC@aol.com
Thu, 28 May 1998 19:13:05 EDT


In a message dated 98-05-28 18:58:17 EDT, shurst@magiclink.com writes:

<<  My question is
 concerning running the rotor cables through drilled holes in a bulkhead.
 Does'nt this expose you to allowing lightning to enter your shack ?
 Would'nt a strike just come down the rotor cable and proceed into the rotor
 control box and then into the AC line ?  >>

     Yessireebob. You also need a rotator cable lightning protector along with
your feedline lightning protectors. I think ICE makes one.

Cheers,  Steve  K7LXC

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