[TowerTalk] Peripheral ground system

Dick Green Dick Green" <dick.green@valley.net
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:12:28 -0400


>>  I'm going to do the full peripheral
>>  ground system per the PolyPhaser books.  Question (the answer to which I
>>  cannot find in the book):  Should the ground wire be at the French drain
>>  level, just below ground level, or does it matter at all?
>


>    It should be below the frost line. About 2 feet is a good depth as long
as
>it satisfies the preceeding condition.
>
>Cheers,  Steve  K7LXC


Probably OK for Western Washington, but here in the frozen tundra of the
Northeast, four feet deep is the standard for getting under the frost line.

73, Dick, WC1M



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