The best practice is to ground the coax shield at both the top and bottom of
the tower. The procedure you described is essentially how it is done.
Polyphaser makes kits for doing this very task. Furthermore, their kits
provide tape and mastic putty for weatherproofing the cut in the coax. I
recently did this on my tower and the kits performed as advertised. They
provide sturdy hardware that would be difficult to improvise. There are
various flavors depending on the braid material (copper, tin, etc.) so study
the infomation on their web site. They also sell tower clamps of different
diameters for securely mounting the copper pigtail to the tower.
Good luck. You're doing the right thing!
Wayne, WØZW
----- Original Message -----
From: <WarrenWolff@aol.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounding of COAX run
> Hi again folks,
>
> Wherever I read the details here, I see that the coax (es) runs should be
> grounded at the base of the tower before routing to the shack.
>
> So, does this mean that I scrape off a piece of the jacket and strap the
> shield to ground? I suspect some folks just put a tight clamp around the
> coax
> and tie the clamp to the ground.
>
> I just want to do the best thing.
>
> Regards, Warren A Wolff; W5KKW; Extra Class (CW Rules!!)
> _______________________________________________
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