[TowerTalk] Grounds - - Radial Field

[Rex Lint]

If you are going to all that trouble, make them longer than 20 feet: make them long enough to let you load the tower as a vertical on the low bands.

Rex K1HI


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WarrenWolff at aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:33 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounds - - Radial Field


So, o’wise ones; here is my proposed layout for a ground  system at my new 
home in the dry desert at Lake Havasu City AZ.  Sorry, I  was unable to
drop a sketch into a post to TT - - - probably illegal  anyway.
 
I expect to place an AN Wireless HD60/70 at the northwest  corner of my
new home, not yet under construction.  This will enable a  270 degree “field”
in which to arrange 20 foot buried radials with 8' ground rods  at the center
of each radial and at the ends of each - - - a total of seven  (7) radials.  
One
of these radials will be parallel to the front wall of my  home.
 
About 30-35 feet away will be the SPG into the shack.  At  that point I will
have a 180 degree “field” available for another set of five  (5) 20 ft
radials, two of which will be parallel to  the front of the home (in line with
the one from the tower).
 
I figure it is OK to use these radials as part of and  connected to an under-
foundation peripheral ground wire.  It will be possible  to connect the
peripheral wire to the buried AC ground.
 
So, what do all you guys think?  Appreciate candid  remarks without
unsubscribing.
 
Regards, Warren; W5KKW; ARRL Live  Member
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