[TowerTalk] WX0B SixPak ?

[Pete Smith]

At 04:42 PM 4/12/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I just checked for grounding on my unselected SixPak ports and unselected
>ports do not get grounded.


Interesting issue -- not so much from the lightning standpoint as because 
grounding feedlines versus letting them float may affect how the connected 
antennas interact with one another.  I think it was Dave, K6LL, who 
commented on this as a possible way of making a 40-meter yagi interact less 
with a nearby 15-meter antenna.

I think I'm about to become a guinea pig, because I'm replacing my old 
Heath antenna switch (which floats unused antennas) with cascaded TopTen 
boxes, which ground everything that's not in use, and ground all antennas 
when power is off.  I'll report what (if anything noticeable) happens.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower