[TowerTalk] FW: Bourns GDT's

[Ron WV4P]

Per VE6WZ on his Beverage builds (Youtube Vids) I used these.

Littelfuse GTCA28-141M-R20-ND

Under $3 each from Digikey.

Ron, WV4P

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 13:43, tony.kaz--- via TowerTalk <
towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

> Oops. This came from the wrong account.
> Sorry
> N2TK, Tony
>
> From: Tony Kazmakites
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 2:41 PM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Bourns GDT's
>
> I am building new boxes for my BOGS, W1FV and Pennant receive antennas.
> Buried new flooded PE RG6 to all the antennas.
> The new boxes will use matching transformers per K9YC's latest notes on
> using Cat5 cable on ferrite cores. I feed 12V down the coax to be able to
> switch directions on the Pennants. I plan on putting 47k Ohmite OX
> resistors
> across the antenna to ground. Was also considering adding  GDT in parallel.
> Make sense? What part number of GDT would you recommend? Higher value of
> resistor?
>
> Tnx for any feedback.
> N2TK, Tony
>
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