[TowerTalk] Verticals and well pipe grounding

[Kevin Kidd]

If you have any semblance of a radial ground system, I don't find this
surprising.  We bond to well casings for lightning grounds at AM broadcast
towers but they don't provide much in the way of an RF ground system.
There are urban legends in the broadcast industry about how adding a deep
well ground increased a stations coverage by xxx% but I have never seen any
data to support them.

And then there is the local case where an owner bought into the myth and
had a 190ft (to match the tower height, well past the water table)
drilled.  His dufus engineer (not this dufus) had the driller put a PVC
casing in his deep, expensive, mostly useless hole...



On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> At my previous location I tried tapping into my 60' of well casing and
> found
> no difference in A/B testing of nearby verticals.
>



Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
AM Ground Systems Company  -  WD4RAT
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