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Re: Topband: Rotator Potentiometer shunt fed twr

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Subject: Re: Topband: Rotator Potentiometer shunt fed twr
From: Phil Duff <na4m@suddenlink.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:39:38 -0500
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Unclear how this might help?

Aren't most rotors and their masts normally grounded thru the rotor body and mast clamp & mounting bolts to their tower/support?

Have run 160m QRO shunt-fed tower with CDE rotors for decades with no rotor bypassing and no rotor pot burning noticed.  YMMV

de NA4M

On 2020-08-23 2:39 PM, dj7ww@t-online.de wrote:
Bypass the rotor with thick ground lead from the rotating pipe mast to the
tower,
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