Lee you're doing more than most for Beverage
protection so I would not worry about it. However, I do
completely disconnect everything from my equipment
during thunderstorm season. The most likely damage
to your Beverage will be blowing the terminations but
that can be alleviated by
Hello Lee,
You might want to put an RF choke across the antenna input to
ground. That will ground the antenna for DC. The RF choke would
need to have enough impedance so that it doesn't pass RF at the
frequencies of interest.
I too, am waiting for diversity reception. I put in a feature
Gentlemen:
Some fifty years ago I read about something that I thought would be a really
nice thing to have: dual diversity reception. When Flex Radio mentioned that
in their promotional material it was a significant factor in deciding to
purchase the Flex-5000A. And I have every intention
I would evaluate an inductive coupling between the antenna and the
shack, with a sheet of glass separating the coils (i.e.,
pancake-shaped spiral coils on each side of the glass). Ground the
lead from the antenna outside and have this coupling inductor
outside. Don't ground the inside lead to
In my youth, back on the farm, I experimented with
long wires. I even tried using one of the strands
of a barbed-wire fence that was stapled to wooden
posts. That didn't work well for an antenna, but
we did use it to carry DC Teletype from the house
to the field-day site, using one strand and a
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