David, Industrial Communications Engineers (I.C.E.) makes a couple of open wire arrestors that I think are well designed. On both legs of the open wire they feature a DC short to ground (inductor) on the antenna side that helps drain static ( and resulting noise) from the antenna, a gas tube to ground for fast rise-time impulses, a high-voltage capacitor in series between antenna and Xceiver, and a high resistance to ground on the input. In my opinion this is about as good as you can get short of disconnecting and grounding the antenna well away from the shack. http://www.iceradioproducts.com/impulse1.html#2 http://www.iceradioproducts.com/impulse1.html#2
Chuck, AE4CW quote author="David Wilburn" A very interesting read, I have a couple of questions about practical considerations. I have not found a way to safety ground ladder line and run it into the house. After taking a lightning strike last year, I have no wish to have ladder line and / or balun's inside the house. *Is there a way to properly ground that ladder line, and then run it into the house? *If there is a practical way, I assume one uses a plastic box or no box at all? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/balanced-tuner-tp727762p731236.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
