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Subject: [TowerTalk] Ground wire between tower and ground stakes
From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:27:07 -0800
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:24:41 -0600
From: "Jeff" <keepwalking188@ac0c.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>, "Patrick Greenlee"
<patrick_g@windstream.net>

<What about insulated stranded?  You give up some of the ground to conductor 
<surface area but the wire compared to the rods is a pretty minimal part of 
<the network.  Right?

<73/jeff/ac0c
<www.ac0c.com
<alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

##  on advice of  my  electrician buddy, who is also a ham, I used,
2 gauge, stranded CU, insulated.   Called RW-90.   Then cadwelded
at rod ends.  And compression lugs used at tower end.   I also used
RW-90 in 10 and 8 gauge, for wire ants.  That stuff last forever
outdoors.   Solid 2 gauge is a bitch to work with.   And yes, lightning
will do multiple 90 deg bends. 

Jim  VE7RF

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