[BC] Lightning suppression

[Mario Hieb]

He showed it as a dead short, not a tuned stub. Plus, stubs are frequency 
dependant.

Also, when you put a lightning rod on the end of a VHF/UHF antenna, you 
detune it.

At 11:06 PM 5/11/2005, you wrote:
>Well, he could be right, but didn't tell the whole story, If you ground your
>center conductor, it has to be on a shorted stub, 1/4 wavelength long (which
>then to the RF looks just like an open).
>
>Commonly done on the output of the 802 exciter in an 816 Continental.
>
>Dave Dunsmoor