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61. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:49:35 -0700
I have to ask, though ... what in your mind makes any of this relevant to whether or not bringing a copper wire out from a tower foundation below grade in any way is deleterious to the foundation?? T
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00375.html (14,463 bytes)

62. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Cqtestk4xs@aol.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
Correct. In FL almost all homes are built on concrete slabs. Wherever the copper pipe goes through the concrete, the pipe is sleeved with rubber or plastic. Part of the reason is mechanical since whe
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00377.html (10,952 bytes)

63. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:53:04 -0700
On 7/18/13 8:16 AM, Grant Saviers wrote: Agree that the Ufer wiki entry re "chip and flake" is soft. However, the potential problems with buried copper or copper in concrete are well documented/known
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00384.html (10,444 bytes)

64. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:58:57 -0700
I didn't say it wasn't possible to do so. I said that the majority of residential Ufer grounds in the footing bring the ground wire up to the breaker panel from outside the footing. That's the way vi
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00385.html (10,367 bytes)

65. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:41:19 -0700
Yup. Although I can't find it anymore, I swear I saw a diagram in a code book that called for the 20 feet of copper wire to have a few wraps around the rebar in the trench before the pour. Probably t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00387.html (11,192 bytes)

66. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting. I've seen utility companies in my area install new wood poles that had a coil of heavy copper wire stapled to the bottom of the pole before it was installed in the hole. The wire then ra
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00419.html (12,387 bytes)

67. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: John Ammeter <jammeter@cablespeed.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:27:31 -0700
That's connected to the neutral conductor on the pole. That way neutral is constantly the same potential as ground. John (retired from electric utility) KE7JA On 7/22/2013 1:23 PM, GALE STEWARD wrote
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00420.html (12,584 bytes)

68. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: "davidrobbins" <davidrobbins@ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:34:16 +0000
That?s called a 'butt wrap', just another way to get a ground without driving a rod. Interesting. I've seen utility companies in my area install new wood poles that had a coil of heavy copper wire st
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00447.html (12,904 bytes)

69. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: bill steffey NY9H <ny9hpa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:57:47 -0400
John (retired from electric utility) KE7JA On 7/22/2013 1:23 PM, GALE STEWARD wr and his name is really AMMETER and he retired from the electric company.... reminds me , when i was a kid the surgeons
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00448.html (10,217 bytes)

70. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:05:18 -0700
That's called a butt wrap. 73 Jim W7RY Interesting. I've seen utility companies in my area install new wood poles that had a coil of heavy copper wire stapled to the bottom of the pole before it was
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00449.html (13,064 bytes)

71. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Tom Anderson <andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
When I was a news reporter at the Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald in the 1970s we had a Nutt and a Crook for TX DPS state troopers assigned to Hubbard, SE of Hillsboro TX and NE of Waco.   Ray (Nutt) later
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00451.html (11,486 bytes)

72. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: gdaught6@stanford.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:32:25 -0700
Bill wrote... I can't resist this sort of subject. There used to be a dentist named Yankum near San Jose State College. 73, George T Daughters, K6GT CU in the California QSO Party (CQP) October 5-6,
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00452.html (9,596 bytes)

73. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: "scottw3tx@verizon.net" <scottw3tx@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:41:20 -0400
At Penn we had a surgeon named Dr Blood. Best regards, Scott Bill wrote... I can't resist this sort of subject. There used to be a dentist named Yankum near San Jose State College. 73, George T Daugh
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00453.html (9,966 bytes)

74. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:16:28 -0400
Growing up, my Dr.'s name was Slaughter! 73, Jon Pearl - W4ABC Best regards, Scott _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing li
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00456.html (9,876 bytes)

75. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: K8RI <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:29:08 -0400
Best regards, Scott Bill wrote... and his name is really AMMETER and he retired from the electric company.... reminds me , when i was a kid the surgeons at Evanston Hospital were Slaughter and Savage
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00457.html (10,943 bytes)

76. [TowerTalk] tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Spencer <k5gak@powerc.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:38:31 -0600
I did some maintenance on a steel boat. The utility company had connected the ground to the hull when connected to shore power. There was serious corrosion problems. I measured the ground wire curren
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00458.html (8,454 bytes)

77. Re: [TowerTalk] tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:20:11 -0700
My sailboat was at the wharf, plugged into shore power when a thunderstorm passed by about a 1/4 mile away. Each lightning flash was accompanied with an arc over SNAP in the 120v outlets. Scary how m
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00462.html (9,656 bytes)

78. Re: [TowerTalk] tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: K8RI <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:35:55 -0400
On 7/24/2013 1:20 AM, Grant Saviers wrote: My sailboat was at the wharf, plugged into shore power when a thunderstorm passed by about a 1/4 mile away. Each lightning flash was accompanied with an arc
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00463.html (11,255 bytes)

79. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Steve Babcock <ve6wz.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:45:31 -0500
Migraine headache speciallist: Dr. Akenhead really....true story. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@cont
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00466.html (10,463 bytes)

80. Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding (score: 1)
Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:36:45 -0500
Before this thread gets stopped, I can't resist to win this contest. Every time I drive to Silver Dollar City, about 30 miles from my QTH, I drive past this Gynecologist's office and chuckle. https:/
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-07/msg00470.html (12,149 bytes)

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