[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

[JoeCoolDXer]

It's interesting how certain requirements creep into specifications possibly just because it's possible to do them.
Recognize if lightning gets into a home it seems to have no trouble traveling through screwed 
and friction (plug-in) connections, sharp bends, and ultimately zapping lots of stuff. 

If CADwelds and OneShots are important in ground rod connections, why then, for example, is it not also required 
to weld all those electrically unreliable bolted joints between tower sections...??

Don N7EF
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Gilbert<mailto:xdavid at cis-broadband.com> 
  To: towertalk at contesting.com<mailto:towertalk at contesting.com> 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ground Rods
     [-SNIP-]
  My only recourse was to put in more rods to ground my tower, and I built 
  my own exothermic mold (standard type, not One-Shot variety) and bought 
  a bunch of Cadweld powder on eBay so I could make as many wire-to-rod 
  connections as I needed.  The biggest reservation I have is that I'm 
  less likely to reach moist earth during our dry springtime with the 
  shorter rods, but that's just something I have to live with.  No storms 
  then anyway ...

  73,
  Dave   AB7E