Ok guys, I know this has been talked about a few times about FM towers. We have a new site, that has about 20 cell phone antennas on it and maybe 8 private band handheld radio antennas. We are seeing crc errors on all the radios, not really effecting overall traffic, but I would like to fix it. I have only used really good CAT5 cable for about 10 years now in my area on all of our towers with great success. We never have lightning issues unless it's a direct hit and the radio blows up. What I am wondering is that maybe when I used shielded cable 10 years ago to connect to cisco aps, we always popped the ports on them. Granted I didn't know much back then and I don't believe I had the shielded cable grounded right. So what I'm asking, I assume the best way to fix this is with shielded cable. How do most people setup the shielded run. So do I go into a chuck ground with a shielded end connected to the drain wire at the bottom and then do I go into a chuck ground at the top too? Or do I strip the jacket and ground the shield to the tower? I guess I don't want to just guess and loose radios in lightning storms again, can someone let me know what great results they have in the way they ground the run? Thanks, Criag.
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