[TowerTalk] Tower Grounding advice

[Mike]

Jim Brown wrote:
> I wouldn't go nuts. Remember that INDUCTANCE dominates the equivalent 
> circuit at the frequencies where nearly all the energy of lightning is 
> located (a few octaves centered around 1 MHz), and the earth itself 
> tends to be pretty lossy (resistive), so more short parallel paths are 
> more important than a few longer paths. If your tower has has a good, 
> short electrical connection to the concrete, that's likely to be the 
> best earth electrode in your system, probably as good as the rest of 
> them in parallel! 
How do you make an electrical connection to concrete?

73, Mike NF4L