[TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

Guys should attach to a guy bracket!  A guy bracket is a substantial 
assembly of 1/4" steel on a 25G.  I don't know the width, but think it's 
probably about 1.5 inches. The bracket assembly completely encircles the 
tower.  True you can get by with less on a lightly loaded, short tower.

That we can get away with less often gets translated and used for taller 
towers.  Thirty feet with out guys?  How do you work on antennas? Hinge 
it at the base?  I know of one ham who is permanently disabled and 
living on pain pills when a 30' 25G broke over.

How about insurance?

73

Roger  (K8RI)


On 12/14/2015 1:04 PM, Gary Schafer 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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73

Roger (K8RI)


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