How to add lightning protection to a random wire antenna?
Adding a sloper from top of tower down to corner of the house.
It’s a 2-conductor solid cable. I stripped, twisted, soldered, wire-nutted, then taped the end at the tower. I’d have preferred a single conductor, but this is what I was gifted, and think I can use it with the ends of the two conductors bonded together. Confirm?
Given I’m using a proper random wire tuner, properly grounded, where should I bond together the other end of the wire?
Given I’m using a tuner suited for random wire antennas (properly grounded), must I tap the antenna for the feed line on the slope, or can I do it at a point after the antenna wire has been bonded together at the lower end?
I have bought axial lead gas discharge tubes, and intend to use one to add some primitive static/lightning protection to the antenna. My thought is to tap the feed line (a 10 gauge solid core wire) with a flag terminal and crimp on a GDT lead going to a ground rod before entering the house. See pictures. Comments?