As I understand it, there should be a multi-level defense. Direct bonding to ground rods for any towers or support poles, plus the standard “automatic” grounding for the antenna wires using those things with the little metal chips in a tube, plus lots of ground rods, plus bonding of the antenna ground system to the household electric ground. All done outside the building.
Household surge protector in the breaker box, plus perhaps two more in series with the radio power supply. Also on the cable connection to the house. And then disconnect switches on everything that plugs into the radio, including coax, USB, Ethernet, headphones, keys, power, etc., because induced voltage within the house can also be a problem. So what would be nice would be a single box, controlled by the radio power switch, with relay disconnect of “anything you can think of that has a wire on it." Doug, W0UHU ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
