[TowerTalk] Single Point Ground

[W7CE]

> My manhole in the yard is in a low spot and has an open bottom with 
> gravel. The conduits all slope down to it.
>
> Where they don't do that, like in the island to the building, I drilled 
> drain holes in the pipe and set it on gravel. Other pipes are the same 
> way, either open at a low spot or with drain holes in low spots. You can 
> see I mostly cut a "hood" with an angle cut. I have to go back and finish 
> a few like that, but in the mean time I don't seem to have any water 
> problems. I also pull flooded cables, ones with goo inside, or use 
> hardline. The 5/8th inch (50 ohm) hardline and the 50 ohm that looks like 
> RG8 are flooded cables, but the rest are just normal heliax and are never 
> a problem even when directly buried.
>
> 73 Tom

Thanks for the reply Tom.  I'm using 7/8" Heliax (LDF5-50A).  Is it 
considered acceptable to direct bury that coax?  I'll probably go with 
conduit, but direct burial might be a reasonable alternative.

73,
Clay  W7CE