[TowerTalk] Ground wire Gauge

Martin AA6E aa6e at ewing.homedns.org
Sat Jul 21 19:31:09 EDT 2007


More copper (and more surface area) for lightning protection are always 
better, like 4/0.  I ran across an interesting commercial installation 
here: http://tinyurl.com/2v5sea .

73 Martin AA6E

Tony wrote:
> All:
> 
> Replaced 3 tower ground wires today with #2 
> insulated stranded copper. Noticed the original 
> wires looked closer to 0 or possibly 00 and was 
> wondering if I'm loosing much with the smaller 
> gauge? The runs are about 3 to 4 feet long.
> 
> Tony 
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