[TowerTalk] Lightning Protection via gas tube devices

[Adam Kennedy]

We put gas tube lightning protectors at the bottom of every cable run 
for our microwave (5, 6 and 11Ghz bands) links. At the half-way point 
and at the top we install grounding kits to ground the shield of the 
cable to a good ground. The Motorola R56 standards have some good tips 
and standards to use for grounding of towers and feed lines. Feed line 
ground kits aren't always cheap, but the first time they protect your 
equipment from a lightning strike, they have already paid for themselves!

On 7/17/12 2:46 PM, Larry Loen wrote:
> On the subject of lightning protection, is this sort of thing:
> http://www.l-com.com/item.aspx?id=21474  useful or advisable?
>
> Do I put one just at the base of the tower (and connect it to the
> tower ground system) or do I also have one next to the shack.
>
> I was looking into female-female SO239 type devices for use as the
> shack side ground for my coax (I'd have a connector box and then make
> sure the paired "SO239"s would then be grounded), but I wondered about
> this.
>
> The price isn't great, but what worries me more is the 0.4 dB
> insertion loss.  Or, is that at GHz frequencies only?
>
>
>
> Larry  Wo0Z
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Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy
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