About 20 years ago I decided to do something about lightning protection. My tower is 80 feet of Rohn 45G, with a 5el Telrex monoband 20 meter yagi at 82 feet.
Hygain 153BAS at 90 feet and Hygain 103BAS at 100 feet. I have a homemade antenna switch box near the top. I shunt feed the tower with an Omega Match for 160. The shunt rod is 1/2inch EMT conduit. I use vacuum variables in the Omega match. At 65 feet I have a Diamond X200 for 2meter/440mhz. all cables come to the base and go underground to a steel box at the entry to the house. The HF antennas are fed with RG-17 and go through an ICE 308 15kw coax arrestor. The X200 is fed with RG213 through a PolyPhaser arrestor. The control wires all go through PolyPhaser arrestors. I made LC to UHF adapters. My tower is the tallest thing for several miles. The tower is guyed with 6700lb Phillystrand. So far so good. Price W0RI near St. Louis, MO _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
