[TowerTalk] Heavy Guage Copper Wire Source??

[Red]

JC caught a great big OOPS!  Dimensions for 8' ground rods are: 8' into 
the ground and 16' apart.

Thanks, JC.

73 de Red

JC Smith wrote:

>Red says:
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>The optimum pattern of radials for lightning dissipation from a tower or
>vertical antenna is a pattern of 6, equally spaced around the center.
>More won't hurt, but don't help a whole lot for dissipating lightning,
>because 6 will utilize the available capacity of the soil.  This assumes
>that each radial terminates in a ground rod to a depth at least twice
>the length of the radial.
>==== snip ====
>It sounds like you are talking about some short radials or some long ground
>rods.  Can you give us some typical dimensions?  Typical ground rod is 8' so
>are you talking about 4' radials?
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>Thanks & 73 - JC, K0HPS
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