Grounding Mobile Antennas (
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Alan, KB1DJ, asks Dave if mobile antennas need to be grounded. He uses an ATAS-120a, but all of the washers he uses seem to rust very quickly. Dave has some great advice on how to protect your mobile antennas from lightning and corrosion!
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I'm glad that your answers are always well grounded, and not too salty! See what I did there, antenna ground? corrosive salt? Anyway, great explanation, I knew I had been missing a couple of things regarding grounding!
The creation of a car or truck to make it a counterpoise is a simple, but involved process. My ATAS, and 6M VHF/UHF antennas, are on a large plate of aluminum, as the first point of contact. All panels and the frame, engine, transmission, etc are connected by straps It works very well.
Aloha, from Honolulu Hawaii AH6WI here; much Mahalo for your videos. It's almost 1200hrs here watching this vid. Always learning and willing to learn. Do uou have that video episode number with the atas grounding with copper strap featuring Mr. French?