[TowerTalk] Station Ground

[Pat Barthelow]

Kelly, and TT:

One reason for the desirability of broad, flat ground conductors at RF,  is 
that the series inductance of such is much less than "round" conductors of 
any manageable size... While a narrow stricture somewhere in the conductor 
should be avoided if possible, and it is difficult to avoid entirely, you 
still gain benefits from the broad conductor contributing less total 
inductance to the ground system....even if in series with a small run of 
narrow conductor...

73, DX, de Pat AA6EG   aa6eg at hotmail.com


>OK, I've gotten several responses to my station
>ground question.  Nearly all of them have described
>a ground system with "beefy" (#0 or #2 stranded)
>wire connecting a bus-bar in the shack to a
>ground rod (or multiple ground rods connected
>together), but all of them have described how they
>connect the rig to the bus-bar using much smaller
>(like #10) wire.  Isn't this a "weakest link problem"?
>Why do you need "beefy" connections from bus-bar
>to ground when you use much smaller wire
>connecting the equipment to the bus-bar?
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