You have to be careful with those gasfet lightning arresters because they'll 
open up if there's a nearby lightning strike and remain open until they are 
replaced.  I actually had that happen to me when I was the field day trustee 
for an operation from the emergency operations center in Prince George's 
county and we couldn't get to the antennas because the Executive Director's 
office was locked So we ended up blowing up the eoc's radio and we had to 
set everything up with a different rig and antenna configuration so we could 
continue to operate.

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From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:11 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: grounding question

> You're putting a lightning arrester in the shack? or outside? an inline
> lightning arrester should always be outside and I sure wouldn't ground it 
> to
> the same ground as the radio unless you want lightning coming back in the
> radio's RF ground and frying the radio that way. I've heard of that
> happening many times I'd disconnect the RF ground in a lightning storm
> either way. Maybe I'[m misunderstanding but lightning protection 
> grounding,
> like antennas and lightning arresters should never be inside, the radio's
> ground is only RF grounding, I wouldn't combine the 2.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:24 PM
> Subject: grounding question
>
>
>> I'm just setting up my ts2000 after being off the air for the past year.
>> I've a
>> breakout box for cables and such.  I'll run a ground wire through the box
>> out to
>> an 8ft grounding rod.  My question is this -- I have one of those gas
>> lightning
>> arresters.  It will attach to the breakout box and the antenna cable will
>> attach
>> to it.  It is to be grounded.  When I ground it is there any good reason
>> that it
>> should have a ground separate from the radio or can they both be grounded
>> to the
>> same ground rod?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>