[Towertalk] Grounds, UFER grounds

[Jim Lux]

Nope.. I haven't tried it for RF (got a standard ground rod hammered into
the ground).. My house's electrical service, though, does use a UFER ground.
A bit of web searching should turn up some info on RF properties though..
Lightning protection and RF are very similar applications...

I was more interested in pointing out that the surface area of a ground rod
isn't all that huge... so a buried 2x2 foot copper plate could actually be a
"better" ground...

A lot also depends on where your water table is, how wet the soil is,
capacitive coupling, etc.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Axelrod" <bill@axelrods.org>
To: <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Grounds, UFER grounds


> This is an interesting thread since one of my goals this spring is to
> install a better system ground.  Jim, if I read your posting correctly,
you
> say that I would be essentially equally served with a 10x10 inch plate
than
> I would with a 1/2" diameter rod 10 feet long.
>
> Does that pertain to the RF ground as well as the DC ground?  If you use
> such a ground, how have you fared with it?
>
> Thanks and 73...   Bill K3WA  bill@axelrods.org