[TowerTalk] Tower grounds near Underground Utilities?

[Jonathan Kaplan]

I had to step in and say STOP! Everyone is off on some
tangant which has nothing to do with what I originally ask.

What I originally wanted to know was how close to the Tower's
base and grounding rods I could have the electrical and gas
mains to the house without a lightning strike jumping from the
rods through the ground to the wiring and piping.

In other words, how much ground is necessary around a ground
rod to safely dissapate a lightning strike? If someone knows the
answer, I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks
Jonathan KO6XS

At 10:10 PM 1/22/99 -0500, LYN wrote:
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>> >be sure to call your local Miss Utility (Call before you dig
>> center)
>> >They will have each utility come out to your location and first
>> >mark their facilities and second discuss any special
>> considerations
>> >that need to be met when dealing with your initial dig for the
>> >tower base and also and bonding and or grounding of your/their
>> >facility.
>>
>> I've called them out twice.
>
>They can be WRONG.  I also called them out twice, about a year
>apart.  The first time, the guy traced and marked some lines that
>the second guy missed a year later!
>
>The reason the second guy  missed was that the lines travelled to
>the edge of my property, went across the edge about a foot, then
>curved back on and tracked right thru the important area.
>The second guy followed it only to the property line and did not
>bother to follow it to see whether it curved back on.  It was my
>240v main, which could have killed me if I had not remembered
>that the first guy had traced it back on and through the area I
>needed to drill.
>
>Lyn, W4WDN
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