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Re:What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jump... by gelo on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:58PM (#11083187)
i can understand the need for the large towers to TX AM band signals but grounding a directly fed antenna like that would kill the PA. You'd really screw up the SWR.
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Re:What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jump... by sathackr on Thursday February 11, 2016 @05:12PM (#11083724)
I believe there is some sort of protection circuit that keeps such an event from destroying the PA.
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