[TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower

[n8de at thepoint.net]

What works great for me .. and always has ... is putting groups of a  
few radials in 'solder lugs'... and then taking all those lugs and  
putting a single bolt/lockwasher/nut through them all .. with, of  
course, a short length of heavy wire to the ground rod/tower base.

The use of a 'ring' is cute looking, but, in reality unnecessary.

73
Don
N8DE


Quoting "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>:

>
>
> On 12/13/2015 1:16 PM, Stan Stockton wrote:
>> Rick,
>>
>> OK.  Just read this.  What would your best suggestion be for me to   
>> most effectively fix what I have described?
>>
>> Stan, K5GO
>>
>
> I think the general advice is to have a ring
> around your foundation where the radials attach,
> and then another ring immediately around the
> tower.  Between the rings you want a dozen or
> two "radials" that run across the concrete.
> No matter how good the ground radial system
> is outside the outer ring, you still need a
> good connection from the inner ring to the
> outer ring.  If you skimp, you will see the
> apparent resonant frequency of the vertical
> go down.  The bigger your foundation, the
> more important this is.
>
> Rick N6RK
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