[TowerTalk] Routing wire from tower to ground for lightning protection

[Gary McDuffie, Sr.]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:04:10 +0000, Ron Youvan wrote:

>   Bingo, you can not drive enough rods to produce the ground
> 
> the electric company gives you free.

Hogwash!  The power company's ground barely exists in some places!
Maybe your utility has good grounds.  But, as has been discussed here
before, not all of them do.

Put in the best ground you can afford, and then bond it to the power and
telephone company ground (cable too, if you have it).

Gary
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