[TowerTalk] Grounding, Lightning & corona discharge

[Pete Smith]

At 09:03 AM 7/29/2004, Tom Rauch wrote:
>A single ground wire from the shunt protection is clamped to
>the power line ground.
>
>This is the national code.


Illustrative of the difficulties of doing the single-point ground thing 
properly with an old house, our telephone and cable TV connections are 180 
degrees around the house from the AC power entrance, grounded to a rod at 
that point, so there is undoubtedly a fair amount of resistance between the 
two grounds.  Just to further complicate things, our telephones are in 
parallel to the telco box rather than in series.

I would have to trench in a perimeter ground, per Polyphaser 
recommendations, before anything else would begin to make sense.


73, Pete N4ZR
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