[TowerTalk] Discharge with a dipole

[W1JCW]

A previous post suggested a spark plug on each terminal the ladder line connected to.

So the resister would go from each terminal and tie the other end to a ground rod ? 

I run 250' center feed 450 ladder line down to a 4:1 balun. 

73-
W1JCW
John


From: Jim Lux 
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:59 PM
To: K2VI 
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com> 
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] zapped with my dipole. OUCH!


A 1meg resistor to ground?

On May 14, 2011, at 13:29, "K2VI" <k2vi at cox.net> wrote:

> It seems every time there's distant lightning and i go to disconnect the dipole i get this nasty discharge when i touch the pl-259. Im concerned it will eventually damage my tuner and or radio. The antenna is not dc grounded like my beam or vertical are. It is a ladder line fed antenna terminating into a 4:1 balun outside the shack and a 3' run of rg8 coax to the tuner. How can i bleed this static off? I heard from a ham friend the jump a 2.5 MH RF choke between the two terminals of the 4:1 balun where the ladder line connects.Any advice would be greatly apreciated.73
> tony k2vi