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![]() MUST ground the shields that's OK and you can use lightning arrestors on both coaxes. This is probably not going to work in most cases. Remember an open wire feedline can have rather high voltages on it compared to a matched coax liine. This is because they are often mismatched at the antenna. If a voltage peak should happen to occur at the place where you have the arrestor, it can fire the gas tube because of the rf voltage. For example, a gas tube arrestor made for legal limit typically has a firing voltage of about 800 volts. In a matched 50 ohm system, even with a full 1500 watts into 50 ohms the peak rf voltage is in the neighborhood of 600 volts. But even a moderate power into a high impedance open line could be enough to fire the gas tubes. Neither the transmitter nor the gas tube would be happy with this situation. Rick K2XT |
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