[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

[Jim W7RY]

Because you don't want to bury a mechanical connection. That is why you 
cadweld.

73
Jim W7RY


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From: "JoeCoolDXer" <JoeCoolDXer at msn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:40 PM
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>; "David Gilbert" <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ground Rods

> 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
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