Attic antenna: precautions for nearby AC wiring?
 

With an attic dipole installation is it worth putting snap-on ferrites
on AC wiring or other low voltage (phone, network) cabling that's nearby?

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

Dunno....You never know what will happen. Will
usually vary per freq...One freq might do nothing,
and another trash everything you have...Myself,
I have a 40 dipole in the attic , fed with 300 ohm
line to a tuner, but I use it so rarely, I didn't bother
with any of that...It's just a backup, and bad wx
antenna...Myself, I probably put up the antenna, and
try it. If it trashes something, I'd concentrate on those
wires first. You never know...You might get lucky and
not need much. But...if you gotta lot of beads around,
and want to try preventive beading , while you install
the antenna, I could you could. Wouldn't hurt anything..
MK

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:51:29 -0500, Ben Jackson wrote:

With an attic dipole installation is it worth putting snap-on ferrites
on AC wiring or other low voltage (phone, network) cabling that's nearby?

At a previous house, I had a 10 meter attic dipole that made the whole
house come alive when I keyed anything -- had to take it down. On the
other hand, I had an R5 vertical on the roof, just a few feet away
from the same wiring, and it did nothing to the wiring.

Your best bet is to just put the antenna up, see what happens, then
try any corrective actions, if any are needed.

bob
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