[TowerTalk] Tower Grounding Questions

[K8RI]

On 12/21/2011 11:00 AM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> A friend is putting up an LM-470 and asked about grounding it. Who
> makes the Ground Kit for
> the tower ? I have a couple of DX Engineering PPC-UNI-KIT-2CT kits,
> will they do ?

As I make my own and add lots of bare #2 copper along with ground rods 
every 16' I'm not familiar with the DX engineering kits.
I ties the ground cable to the tower legs, and make a gentle curve out 
(about 3 to 6') to the first ground rod. Then extend the cable straight 
out with ground rods every 16 feet, give or take.  This gives me three 
runs straight out plus a cable to another ground rod close to where the 
coax and control cables enter the house/shack where I have  grounding 
bulkhead.  The ground run from the tower to the entrance also has ground 
rods CadWelded about every 8 to 16 feet along its length.
http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/ground.htm
>
> Also, what's the name of those one-shot chemical "bombs" used to weld

CadWeld (TM)

73 and good luck.

Roger (K8RI)
> the ground cable to
> the ground rod ?

Rods!
>
> Tnx es HH, Dick, W1KSZ
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