[TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower

[Gary Schafer]

Wrong thread Roger.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Roger (K8RI) on TT
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 7:22 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower
> 
> 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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