[TowerTalk] Station Ground

[K8RI on Tower Talk]

And the braid can be dressed out into a wide flat low inductance piece from 
the connector at the rig to the buss bar or heavy cable.

Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com

> David:
>
>     The beefy wires are used to minimize the inductance of LONG ground
> leads, e.g., from your desk to the ground rod.  The shorter leads from the
> rig to the ground bus can be of smaller gauge as their total inductance is
> not that large over the foot or so (typically) to the bus-bar or other
> next-larger ground component.
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "N6KJ" <n6kj at yahoo.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Station Ground
>
>
>> 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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