[TowerTalk] Resistor Across a Choke Balun

[Wes Attaway]

I have been using these for years and have never had a single problem.

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      Wes Attaway (N5WA)
           Shreveport, LA
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-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2022 1:32 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Resistor Across a Choke Balun

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
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