[TowerTalk] Grounding of COAX run

[Wayne Greaves]

The best practice is to ground the coax shield at both the top and bottom of 
the tower.  The procedure you described is essentially how it is done. 
Polyphaser makes kits for doing this very task.  Furthermore, their kits 
provide tape and mastic putty for weatherproofing the cut in the coax.  I 
recently did this on my tower and the kits performed as advertised.  They 
provide sturdy hardware that would be difficult to improvise.  There are 
various flavors depending on the braid material (copper, tin, etc.) so study 
the infomation on their web site.  They also sell tower clamps of different 
diameters for securely mounting the copper pigtail to the tower.

Good luck.  You're doing the right thing!

Wayne, WØZW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WarrenWolff at aol.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounding of COAX run


> Hi again folks,
>
> Wherever I read the details here, I see that the coax (es)  runs should be
> grounded at the base of the tower before routing to the  shack.
>
> So, does this mean that I scrape off a piece of the jacket and  strap the
> shield to ground?  I suspect some folks just put a tight clamp  around the 
> coax
> and tie the clamp to the ground.
>
> I just want to do the best thing.
>
> Regards,  Warren A Wolff; W5KKW; Extra Class (CW  Rules!!)
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