{"id":282,"date":"2026-07-14T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:57:30","slug":"lightning-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Lightning protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Installed Morgan M-303<\/a> lightning protection to coax cables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is not fully weatherproof so decided to install it inside the shack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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with grounding outside the shack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I always disconnect all cables during lightning stroms but this is just to protect against those random hits…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One important feature of this unit is that it fully blocks DC. This is important during rain\/snow\/sleet precipitation when static electricity can develop at the antennas and appear at the coax cable. I experienced this last winter when my K4 suddenly started flashing overload!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: This unit can handle full legal power on 6m band unlike most other surge protectors (e.g., polyphaser).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Installed Morgan M-303 lightning protection to coax cables: It is not fully weatherproof so decided to install it inside the shack: with grounding outside the shack: I always disconnect all cables during lightning stroms but this is just to protect against those random hits… One important feature of this unit is that it fully blocks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}