[Benjamin Martin]

Hi Ryan,
I believe that I had the same issue on the IC-7300, and without thinking of it much I simply switched the wires that were connected to the keyer. (e.g. reversed the dit and dah)

Is that an option for you? Or are the wire connections internal to the keyer? (i.e. hard to reconfigure?)

73,
Ben W1BPM

[Benjamin Martin]

Hello,

I’m in the process of building my lightning protection system (and feedline entry) and have two lightning arresters in a waterproof enclosure at my feed entry (which is conveniently located next to house electrical feedpoint/service meter, etc.) – one for VHF/UHF antenna and one for HF vertical.

I have two questions:
1) The MFJ lightning arrester I’m using is too small to take the gauge of solid copper wire I was planning to use to connect to the ground rod. I want to say it was #6 or #8 (have to check), so I’m wondering what AWG is really necessary for the arresters if the crimp connection is smaller than #6 (or #8 – again, have to check on which size wire I have).

2) The electrical outlet I’m plugging my radio into (or rather I’ll be plugging my radio into a surge protector plugged into that wall outlet) is grounded, and is a 20 amp 12 ga house electrical wiring circuit. In addition to this electrical connection being grounded, I was planning to run a wire from my radio ground (ground screw on back of radio) to a common ground outside where I will have the house ground and lightning arrester-attached ground rod connected together. I was planning to use something simple like 12 AWG stranded copper wire between my radio ground and this common ground (in effort to connect as many things to ground as possible) but is 12 AWG heavy enough for this specific ground wire?

Thanks and 73,
Ben – W1BPM

[Benjamin Martin]

Hello all,
I searched through many forum posts and haven’t found answers per se:

I’m in the process of building my lightning protection system (and feedline entry) and have two lightning arresters in a waterproof enclosure at my feed entry (which is conveniently located next to house electrical feedpoint/service meter, etc.) – one for VHF/UHF antenna and one for HF vertical.

Two questions:
1) The MFJ lightning arrester I’m using is too small to take the gauge of solid copper wire I was planning to use to connect to the ground rod. I want to say it was #6 or #8 (have to check), so I’m wondering what AWG is really necessary for the arresters if the crimp connection is smaller than #6 (or #8 – again, have to check on which size wire I have).

2) The electrical outlet I’m plugging my radio into (or rather I’ll be plugging my radio into a surge protector plugged into that wall outlet) is grounded, and is a 20 amp 12 ga house electrical wiring circuit. In addition to this electrical connection being grounded, I was planning to run a wire from my radio ground (ground screw on back of radio) to a common ground outside where I will have the house ground and lightning arrester-attached ground rod connected together. I was planning to use something simple like 12 AWG stranded copper wire between my radio ground and this common ground (in effort to connect as many things to ground as possible) but is 12 AWG heavy enough for this specific ground wire?

Thanks and 73,
Ben – W1BPM

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