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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Grounding advice

To: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Grounding advice
From: Mike <nf4l_NO_SPAM@nf4l.com>
Reply-to: nf4l@nf4l.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:16:28 -0400
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Jim Brown wrote:
> I wouldn't go nuts. Remember that INDUCTANCE dominates the equivalent 
> circuit at the frequencies where nearly all the energy of lightning is 
> located (a few octaves centered around 1 MHz), and the earth itself 
> tends to be pretty lossy (resistive), so more short parallel paths are 
> more important than a few longer paths. If your tower has has a good, 
> short electrical connection to the concrete, that's likely to be the 
> best earth electrode in your system, probably as good as the rest of 
> them in parallel! 
How do you make an electrical connection to concrete?

73, Mike NF4L
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