[time-nuts] GPS Antenna Install

[Don Latham]

ground rods usually thin copper clad over steel. Better to use proper
copper clad clamps with anticorrosion paste than to try to weld.
Don

Martin A Flynn
> On 3/10/2013 11:18 AM, Martin A Flynn wrote:
>> Sorry about the blank messages - not sure why I could not reply to my
>> own message...
>>
>> In any case,  thanks to the help from  kind folks on the list, the
>> TS-2100L in in the rack at the N2MO amateur radio station at InfoAge.
>>
>> The N2MO team spent yesterday doing the prep work to mount a 27dB
>> antenna on the gable end of the building, using 1/2 heliax for feed
>> line, with a Polyphaser  DGXZ + 06NFNF installed in the line before it
>> enters the building.
>>
>> The antenna mount pipe and the Polyphaser are grounded via #2 copper
>> cable that will be exothermic welded to the ground rod.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Martin Flynn
>>
>> PS - Now that the precision time bug has bitten, the team, is
>> considering a Rubidium standard!
>
> Precision time novice needing help !   We have chance to upgrade
> (replace) our existing TS-2100-L with a TS2100-GPS system with the
> rubidium option.
>
> What questions should we be asking the seller?
> *    Is there a method to determine the lamp hours from the console?
> *    Software vintage that corrects the 1PPS issue (or is it relevant)?
>
> While InfoAge is a huge site, it is not a huge budget!
>
> Martin
>
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