[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 68, Issue 22

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:22 -0400, Ron Zond wrote:
> Jerry and Mike
> 
> The radial system I described was designed for the purpose of eliminating
> trouble in advance.
> The radials were buried 3 feet down in the clay soil of WPA. The far end of
> each radial was connected
> to a ground rod. At the transmitter end two Motorola MTZ 5 voltage
> regulators were connected
> across the 220 v line. If the line voltage went above 180 Vpp,  the MTZ 5
> would switch the line to
> ground in 5 nanoseconds. and the MTZ 5 would be out of the circuit until the
> breaker was reset.
> As Mike points out, the potential difference from one end of the radial to
> the other was the main concern.
> 
> Ron
> K3MIY
> 
> 
However many radials the ground rods at their outer end begins to make
them very effective from the rod separation.

73, Jerry, K0CQ