Installing Coax from Shack to Antenna

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Installing Coax from Shack to Antenna

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Күн бұрын

Today I'm finally installing my direct burial LMR-400 from my radio, up into the attic, down the outside of the house, and finally underground. I show a goofy tool I hacked together to make slits in the ground in order to run the coax, and show some of the components that make up the lightning arrestor at the base of the house. It is a much needed improvement over the noisy attic dipoles for sure!

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@AddOhms 2 жыл бұрын

Watching you makes me want to get off my duff and setup my antenna! er I mean antenna(s)! ;)

@sethlavinder 2 жыл бұрын

Same here!! I need some motivation! Been in this QTH 5 years and still nothing right! 73 de Seth - W8FG

@daRealGamer22 3 ай бұрын

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@Marr_SC 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel and the rebrand!

@AmRadPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Much appreciate! -Derek

@mroe34 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the video. Which vertical antenna did you install? Thanks.

@seeharvester Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that burying the cable helps to quiet down your noise floor too.

@jswyman-ll3dr Ай бұрын

Why the noise in the attic antenna?

@alrubio4401 Жыл бұрын

Noticed your Yaseu FT710..... I have one and love it... Go work on the antenna attic run.

@wesley20991 Жыл бұрын

Nice setup in just wondering about your lightning arrester, is that grounded at all.

@AmRadPodcast Жыл бұрын

Yep. Got a bunch of ground rods now, but I’m sill nervous this being Florida. This past summer, if my lightning alarm went off, I unplugged just to be safe.

@wesley20991 Жыл бұрын

@@AmRadPodcast hey thanks for responding I’m still learning and in the same process myself of getting things setup, did you connect your grounding rods to your main house grounding rod?

@AmRadPodcast Жыл бұрын

@@wesley20991 if I recall from the ARRL grounding and bonding book, you should connect to a rod at the arrestor, then bond it to the house rod as well.. of course with a wide flat (low impedance) connection.. I think DX engineering sells the stuff. I haven’t done that yet. Honestly the soil is so bad here for a vertical, I’m thinking about just switching to a retractable EFHW.. storm rolls in, so does the antenna.