[TowerTalk] Re: I'll bite, how does it work

[Brian Smithson]

I'm not much of a chemist, but I wonder what (if any) corrosive
impact that soil would have on the straps. Would they degrade?

-Brian n8wrl

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> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
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> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:57 AM
> To: dick@libelle.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re: I'll bite, how does it work
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>
>
> In a message dated 05/14/2000 4:57:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dick@libelle.com writes:
>
> > We live in the High Sierras of Western Nevada.  Most of the areas here
> >  are ancient alluvial plains consisting of layers of sand/gravel and
> >  "hard pan."  At our QTH the hard pan layer is about three feet thick
> >  and lies roughly eighteen inches below the surface.  Even pneumatic
> >  rotary hammers are not capable of driving a standard steel ground rod
> >  through it.
> >
> >  I finally gave up on rods and the ground field emanating from my tower
> >  consists of eight fifty-foot lengths of 2" copper strap laying in the
> >  bottom of separate 18-inch deep trenches and backfilled.
> >
>        For hard soils like the above, the ground rods can be laid
> horizontally. You only get half the useful hemisphere but it's a LOT easier
> than trying to drive them into the ground.
>
>       Use of copper strap like Dick mentions is the other thing you can do in
> these instances since it gives you much more surface area and soil contact
> area than using copper wire.
>
> Cheers,    Steve    K7LXC
> Tower Tech
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