[TowerTalk] Rotator Question

[pfizenmayer]

>FWIW, I had to put a wire across my rotor because RF currents
>going though the bearings caused TVI.

>Rick N6RK

On 5/22/2011 11:41 AM, Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:
> Please tell me what this #2-#4 wire is going to do that the Faraday
> shield effect of the tower legs around the rotor is not going to do? Or
> the metal of the rotor bell-housing itself? That pot is buried several
> layers deep, covered with metal. Does a #2-#4 wire have some priority
> for lightning? I really need to know, as I have been extremely lucky to
> escape any rotor damage, even with several lightning direct hits to my
> tower.
>
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

and on 160 I got all kinds of BC IMOD  until I tied across top and bottom .

Hank K7HP

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