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Old 18-Jun-2014, 2:55 PM   #14
timgr
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pat191 View Post
While I was thinking about mounting in a tall tree, all I could think of
was lightning
You should ground the antenna in anticipation of lightning strike, regardless of whether its on the roof or in a tree. You also isolate the feed-in from lightning. This has been discussed a lot here. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+and+grounding

Member GroundUrMast knows a lot about this ... I expect he will reply. As I recall, he points to this thread http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=901 as a primer on the subject.
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