[TowerTalk] Ground

[Paul Christensen]

Jim,

Been a while since I've visited that Powerpoint.  Most excellent.  I did
note one possible discrepancy concerning equipment chassis ground points
(and unrelated to the current Lightning & bonding discussion):  

Referencing p. 32/208, it appears the "dot" at the green wire chassis
connection should be removed to illustrate the problem with "Green Wire
Misses Chassis," bringing the dot back into the illustration at the chassis
to show a correct "Pin 1" Green Wire bonding point with the chassis and
signal circuitry ground.

Paul, W9AC

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 12:25 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ground

On Fri,1/15/2016 11:14 PM, Arnie Pfingst wrote:
> Do you all suggest I need more grounding?

What you need is BONDING -- all those grounds MUST be bonded together,
everything in your station needs to be bonded together and to that.

I also live in the west, 7 miles from the Pacific, 70 miles S of the Golden
Gate Bridge. When I moved here, I looked at the lightning map, saw it is
quite infrequent compared to other parts of the country, and
down-prioritized the work to clean up the grounding and bonding in my
station. I knew what to do -- I even taught it -- but lots of things needed
to be done. I lived to regret that decision. One of those infrequent strikes
broke a lot of stuff in my K3.

What should you do?  Study the link I've posted here a dozen times. It's
written for guys like you. :)

http://k9yc.com/GroundingAndAudio.pdf

73, Jim K9YC
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