[TowerTalk] RE grounding of towers

[Kathy Bookmiller]

The heck with banishing to the Aegean or Adriatic-real banishment should be the oceans around the southern oceans where landfall can be only made at places such as South Sandwich, South Georgia, Heard and Bouvet where commiseration can be given as "599 or 59 thanks for the new one" If that is to extreme, then some time spent at BV9 or BS7 may be substituted as punishment. Restocking of provisions can only be made at P5.
Kathy, W2NK


Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 20:52:42 -0700
From: Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd:  Grounding of tower
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On 5/9/13 9:06 AM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
>
 The point was that burying brazed joints is common accepted good 
practice.  AM broadcast ground system are designed for a 30 year 
lifespan.  That being said, brazing copper wire to a copper clad steel 
rod is still bonding Cu to Cu regardless of the substrate.
>
>
 Me, I'd use Cadweld - best practice - for buried ground rod 
connections.  The notion that an individual can second guess years of 
experience behind the code and do it better is hubris.
>
>

Naaahhh..

For real hubris you have to do something spectacular like Odysseus did..

put up a billboard in front of the building department saying something like

I'm Jim Lux, living at .., and I used a non-code way to install my 
ground rods, nyah, nyah, nyah..


Then you wind up on a sailing boat hanging out in the Aegean and 
Adriatic for a bunch of years.