[TowerTalk] Ground - at base of tower or entrance to house?

[K8RI on TowerTalk]

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What I did here was to tie the pig tails at the top of the tower (which also 
form the rotator loops) to the cables coming down the tower using N 
connectors and a double female connector. Those connectors are st rapped to 
a tower leg for grounding.   I do the same thing at the bottom of the tower 
even on the LMR 600 for UHF and VHF before it makes the loop into the box 
for the 4" conduit when it's installed.

At the entrance to the house is a Hoffman box with a 1/4" think Aluminum 
grounding plate. Here I have the Pholyphasers that again ground the coax 
shield (the plate is tied to a ground rod under the box and into the 
grounding network for the house and tower)

With the extensive grounding system I'm not so sure I even need the 
arrestors, but I have them so they are thre.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com (Use return address from home page)

> Should I do as I had last time in AZ, and have ICE lightning arrestors on
> the coax cables and control lines at the base of the tower or should I 
> have
> the well-known single-point ground on the outside wall of the house.  It
> seems better to me to have it at the base of the tower since the lines 
> from
> that point to the house are buried.
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> I am appreciative of the experience and quality of responses on this
> reflector.  Thanks, Steve, for doing it.
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> Jim N7US
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