[TowerTalk] Resistor Across a Choke Balun

[Jim Brown]

On 7/1/2022 10:55 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
> Some lightning arrestors use a shunt-inductor from coax center-conductor 
> to ground followed by a capacitor in series with the center-conductor. 
> This works in conjunction with a gas-discharge tube:
> 
> https://www.arraysolutions.com/as-303u

Yes. I've been replacing Polyphasers whose non-replaceable GDTs have 
fried with these. So far, that's happened only on my high dipoles.

73, Jim K9YC