[TowerTalk] Back of desk grounding buss

[Wayne Kline]

WOW  another  Hustler G series antenna  Strike ☹   I had not one but two  Hustler G6  LIGHTNING strikes
 
Both times blowing off the top piece and  one cracking the fiberglass tube and one blowing the top off with it's metal adaptor 
 
When I built this station...4 towers   each with 4 ground rods  with 1 cable in series and parallel and to the tower legs.    Feed lines come off the tower to ground the 90 deg   enter a Steel WX proof control box.  which is also tied into the ground  rods.    Inside the box the 7/8 hardline connectors are grounded  in a bus bar. the closed tower is 80' and longest 300' away .  All cables and Hardline are buried in a 3' trench  from the towers to the house.  Where I have a 3 ft  X 3ft X 1ft WX entrance  box.   The 12 runs of 7/8 hardline  have the BIG brass fittings again clamped in a buss bar.   the box has 4 ground rods one each side and two 8' out. with #1 copper
 
Inside there is a 4' X 4'  1/8 aluminum wall panel the 6' RG214 jumpers  from the outside hardline are again      
run across a 3' buss bar of long double barrels . This panel is grounded to the outside box ground point with 1
1" wide silver-plated braded copper.  From the wall panel all coax enters the Radio room 14X20.  The rooms ceiling and wall b-4 covering with drywall ,paneling and ceiling tile, were lined with  4' X 8' X  .032 aluminum sheets .
 Because  they wee surplus from work and  I had experience from the last QTH  of Strong RF fields doing weird stuff.
The wall shield is also tied into the ground system.   ( READ) there is NO CELL PHONE signal or WIFI  in the shack.  😎
   The operating table/desks are solid oak commercial doors  40" X 82"   and  shelf 24 X 82"    The top shelf and the bottom back desk have a sheet od  .032 aluminum cut in half and glued down . all radios  a boxes are grounded to the ground screen
with the shortest piece possible.   these two ground plates are bound together at one corner with 1"  silver plated   braded copper.
and then the rolling table  has another  1"  strap through the  little cable access window 1' X 1 ' ..... to the distribution panel on the wall .
 
   Is this the best ???  I used the material I had access to at that time 1990  !
 
Wayne W3EA  
 
PS I did have a 3/4 copper pipe with 1 1/2  # 10 machine screws silver soldered every 12"  and wing nut's.
but that was replaced with the sheet ground configuration 
 
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> It seems to work in my shack well. Anyone local ham here can tell you I
> took a direct hit on a 2M G9 "while talking on it" and while the antenna
> didn't make it the radio is still here in the shack today. The only only
> thing I had to replace was the antenna and my underwear.
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> My Buss bars, ground ring and polys saved the radio. It doesn't take a
> "big" budget. But I think we have beat this one to death.
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> 73 Dave n4zkf
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