When I installed the 30m I used the coax run into the house from my 2m antenna. I finally bought some more coax(Davis Bury-Flex, I find it easy to work with than LMR-400 and it’s about the same as far as losses) so I installed the last lightning arrestor I have room for. There’s been a crazy bird squawking in the yard all day and he kept divebombing me the whole time I was install the connector. Bird
I’ve ordered the hexbeam and rotor. I already received the rotor cable so I figured I’d get that prepped now, the rest of the stuff should be here Monday. I’m hoping to have it setup next week to use in the Florida QSO Party. In an effort to keep lightning out of the house I’ve added a terminal block with MOV’s in the single point ground panel outside. There’s commercial product for this but this setup does the same thing. If the voltage goes above 82v then the MOV takes over and the current goes to the ground panel. Hopefully I don’t have to find out if it works. We…
Being in Florida I’m concerned about lightning. Someone at the club recommended the ARRL Grounding and Bonding book which I purchased and read. I followed the information in the book to create a single point ground panel outside the house using a DX Engineering utility box . Coax from the antenna comes into this box and into a lightning arrestor, then into the house where I have Delta switch which has another arrestor in it, then to the radio. I screwed an aluminum sheet to my shack table and then a copper pipe onto the back of the table with screws to attach equipment grounding terminals. The radio sits on the aluminum and is…
