[TowerTalk] Lightening protection - HF-VHF-rotator

[Jim Lux]

David Weiss wrote:
> I would like to get some real world knowledge about the use of gas tube 
> lightening protectors.  Some of the names out here are Polyphaser, Alpha 
> Delta and DX engineering.  Some of the units are "multistrile" and some 
> have replacable gasFET tubes.  I was suprised that some of the units are 
> not weatherized as in the case of the Polyphaser unit flange mounted.
> 

If you are using a remote antenna switch that feeds the control signal 
or power up the coax, you need to make sure that your chosen protector 
doesn't have a DC open in the thru path or a short to ground.  At W6VIO, 
we have some suppressors not yet installed because they are incompatible 
with the RCS-4 remote switches.

Jim, W6RMK