What works great for me .. and always has ... is putting groups of a
few radials in 'solder lugs'... and then taking all those lugs and
putting a single bolt/lockwasher/nut through them all .. with, of
course, a short length of heavy wire to the ground rod/tower base.
The use of a 'ring' is cute looking, but, in reality unnecessary.
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>:
On 12/13/2015 1:16 PM, Stan Stockton wrote:
Rick,
OK. Just read this. What would your best suggestion be for me to
most effectively fix what I have described?
Stan, K5GO
I think the general advice is to have a ring
around your foundation where the radials attach,
and then another ring immediately around the
tower. Between the rings you want a dozen or
two "radials" that run across the concrete.
No matter how good the ground radial system
is outside the outer ring, you still need a
good connection from the inner ring to the
outer ring. If you skimp, you will see the
apparent resonant frequency of the vertical
go down. The bigger your foundation, the
more important this is.
Rick N6RK
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