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Subject: [TowerTalk] Disconnecting wire antenna and grounding at the tower
From: Alan Beagley <AB2OS@att.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:32:25 -0400
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I have a wire antenna fed through an auto-tuner (Icom AH-4: 80m thru 6m) that will be mounted at or near the top of the tower (at present mounted on a pipe mast attached to the house). Obviously I can protect the rig by disconnecting the feeder at the shack end and grounding it, but how do I protect the tuner?

I really need a remotely operated relay (latching?) that will disconnect the wire from the tuner and ground it and also ground the antenna terminal of the (now disconnected) tuner.

Any ideas for a suitable device, or a suitable relay I can incorporate in a home-brew solution?

Alan AB2OS
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