[TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower

[Stan Stockton]

That might be the thing to do on a new installation.  Unfortunately my radials are about two feet short for that.  I decided to drive to my station and see what would happen by making Rick's suggested change.  Working on it now.  Slow process with gloved hand and kitchen knife to dig up the ring of wire.  I can tell you that the one tower which I hope to complete today resonates 125 kHz lower than my recollection as to what it was when I put it up 12 years ago.  At 3540 it is 38.7 + 0.0.  Maybe have a reading in a couple hours with some additional connections to that ring.

Stan, K5GO

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> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Gary Schafer <garyschafer at largeriver.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> Why wouldn't you just run all of the radial wires up over the foundation to
> a small ring or combined connections right at the tower?
> 
> 73
> Gary K4FMX
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> Richard (Rick) Karlquist
>> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 8:40 PM
>> To: Stan Stockton
>> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com; Jim Lux
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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