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dpb

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On Nov 4, 5:09?pm, dpb wrote:
Tony Hwang wrote:
dpb wrote:
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Will last for years, no additional fees/cost. Antenna may suffer
damage and need replacement from weather--how frequent depends on
severity of local conditions. We're in a very high wind area subject
to lots of hail, extreme t-storms, etc., but still antenna typically
will last 10 years or more. The tower has been bent over once in 30
years by a combination blizzard/ice, but a torch and it was
straightened up at no additional outlay.
Want pictures? Anybody who can't/won't put something like that
together isn't much of a candidate for "rural" living...
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Any precautionary thing for lightning strike?
I'd ground it separately if it were mounted on the house, but this is
set directly into the ground so nothing other than the arrestor on the
antenna leadin. I still on occasion will disconnect the input to the
set if there's a real heavy lightning storm real close, just as
precaution. It's been in place since mid-70s and no problems to date.

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