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Re: [TenTec] If you ground it - it will come!

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] If you ground it - it will come!
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 21:49:34 -0500
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Usually, we had in our club, believed the presence of a Red Cross DC 
grounded ground plane antenna atop the club tower did provide a static bleed 
off.  There have been confirmed sightings of minor "hits" to the ground 
plane during other storms before we lost the VHF rig, and a power supply to 
the coax shield hit.

We are planning on pulling off the antenna stack of GP and beams, and 
putting a better ground path around the rotator.  We suspect the DC path of 
the GP may have been degraded in a hit.

A grounded tower usually provides a "cone of protection" around the area 
where the tower sits.  It does this by constantly bleeding off charges 
accumulating at the top.

Stuart
K5KVH 


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