[TowerTalk] UFER grounding system

[Richards]

On the subject of lightening grounding... I was out at a guy's tower
today (he has three of them, actually) and I could not discern any form
of grounding at all -- even if the ground rod is buried, I expected to see
a strap running from the metal tower legs to somewhere.  But, nothing
at all.  There was a ground rod a few feet away, but it was only connected
to the pass through into his shack as if only grounding the coax as it
entered the building.  I expected to see something from the tower
base to somewhere...

Is this typical??  ////////////    K8JHR  ///////////////
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Jim Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:10:07 -1000, Lee Wical wrote:
>> Any comments on the UFER grounding system? Pros and cons?


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