[TowerTalk] K0XG and grounding
StellarCAT
rxdesign at ssvecnet.com
Sun Jun 5 19:55:34 EDT 2016
I have a used K0XG rotating tower system... so I don’t have info on how install this thing.... I’m mechanically inclined but am curious how one grounds the tower with one of these!? I had a RTS system before and it has a center connection of 4 braided cables that connected to each leg ... but there you were looking at these cables being maybe 18” long tops – with the K0XG the base of the tower is 4’ off the ground (and “isolated” by the bearing).
I had thought about coming off each leg (with what I’m not sure yet) down to a ring of #4 stranded that ‘sits’ on the concrete pads – connecting at the cardinal points (and the 4th point would go directly to the lower framework, below the bearing) ... caldwell at each of these includes a wire going out to each of 4 ground rods spaced away from the tower and from each other (2X rule)...
but that wire coming off the leg is LONG and needs to be flexible...
Gary
K9RX
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