[SEDXC] Ground rods

[Tom W8JI]

Rent a trencher of some type and bury wire. Don't fret too much about 
getting 8 ft in the ground. Ground rods are about useless anyway in strikes, 
especially in poor soil,  unless you have a multitude of them spaced some 
distance apart.

Almost all of equipment damage prevention is in the wiring, in particular 
the building entrance wiring of cables and connecting it to the mains ground 
properly.

I've got 300 ft towers and 200ft towers, take dozens of hits a year, and 
never have damage. I think the deepest rods I have are about four foot. I 
depend on buried wire for grounding. My 318 ft tower has six 4-5 ft deep 
rods at the corners of the base screen. A buss runs around them. Then #6 
bare solid copper deep buried (two ft) extends out for 50-75 feet. There are 
some smaller gauge radials close to the surface.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Arland" <k7sz at live.com>
To: "South East DX Club" <sedxc at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:32 AM
Subject: [SEDXC] Ground rods


> Upgrading the ground system at K7SZ. How does one go about getting these 8 
> foot long ground rods (copper clad steel) into this hard Georgia red 
> clay??
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> Help!!
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> Vy 73
> Rich Arland
> K7SZ
> WPE7BYR
> Bent Dipole Ranch, Dacula, GA
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