[TowerTalk] Grounding of cables to tower?

[Keith Dutson]

The back side of this is: "Why should we do your job for you?"

Advice is to do the homework yourself, like the rest of us.

73, Keith NM5G

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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Shohet, KQ2M
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:43 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Grounding of cables to tower?

Hi Jim,

Until last week I had not heard about my good friend Ward’s book – I certainly intend to buy it.  I have read many materials over the years and been involved in the building and ground of many stations.  And, yes, I have also previously read much of your outstanding .pdf (thank you for providing it!) and downloaded it to my computer several months ago so that I could read it – and I have been doing so.

Having said that, it doesn’t answer my question.  There is no one correct way of doing anything in this hobby – the present discussion on how different people ground the legs of their tower is proof of that.  I wanted to learn what different people on this reflector have done and why, so that I had multiple knowledgeable viewpoints to consider.

My station is different from yours and even if I possessed all of your knowledge in this area, I would likely still choose to do some things differently.  

We have some world class contesters on this reflector.  Even if all of our propagation, antenna and operating knowledge and skills were equal, we would still choose to operate differently from one another.  There is no “one right way”.  That is why asking the question and discussion is important and helpful (for me anyway).   

I hope that you will choose to answer my question.  Thank you.

73

Bob, KQ2M


From: Jim Brown
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 10:09 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Grounding of cables to tower?

On 10/17/2017 11:39 AM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M wrote:
> Please share with me what you would do and why.  Thank you.

Why not just buy and study the new ARRL book by Ward Silver, N0AX, which covers all of this, and to which I contributed?  Or "Up the Tower" by K7LXC, for which I contributed the chapter on Grounding. Or study the slides for the talk on Power and Grounding for Ham Radio that I've given at Pacificon and the Visalia DX Convention?

http://k9yc.com/GroundingAndAudio.pdf

73, Jim K9YC

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