[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 43, Issue 15

[Nick Pair]

Hello all,
  We all need to remember that JC's base was not just a simple hole in the ground but had 81 square feet of bottom contact alone, not counting side areas. The rebar was to be bonded to the copper pipe conductor and was not the sole conductor. Obviously a coil of wire in the bottom of a 3x3 hole is not the same as 20 feet in a trench or bonded to a foundation rebar grid which can have many hundreds of feet of iron rebar.
  That Ufers depend on capacitance as much or more than resistance might be going off on the wrong road. It woulod apply more to a AC current than a DC one. The beinfit of concrete is less than the average soil resistance.( greater permisivity)
   
  As many have stated none of this will help prevent a strike with your name on it and that if one owl doesn't keep the birds off then you need to add more owls. Eventually you will reach the no bird steady state.:-)
   
  Nick 
  WB7PEK

 		
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