[TowerTalk] tower ground question

[Gene Smar]

From: jim Jarvis <jimjarvis at optonline.net>
Date: 2008/05/29 Thu AM 02:41:39 EDT
To: Erichardson at winnipeg.ca, towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower ground question




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Remember, a 90 degree bend in a ground wire is an inductor, and you  
want a low impedance
path for strike current.   I would run that 1.5" strap from each  
tower leg, with an 18" radius bend,
over the foundation, and out to each ground rod.

N2EA


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...i.e., attach the ground strap/wire higher up on each tower leg than just at the concrete base.  

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F