[TowerTalk] Grounding of cables to tower?

[Jim Brown]

On 10/17/2017 7:43 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>
> 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.

The tower leg discussion is a simple mechanical one, from which I 
learned of useful resources. This is not a "why" question, it is "what 
are the practical ways to make the connection."  There are good and bad 
(even right and wrong) grounding schemes, and most are not debatable. It 
is, for example, "right" to bond tower grounds to premises grounds if 
the tower is "close" to the premises, and somewhere between "wrong" and 
"a waste of time" if it's not close to the premises. And for purposes of 
this discussion, "not close" is somewhere between 60 and 100 ft. You'll 
find this in Ward's book and in my pdf.

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

I did, in the three resources listed below. And I spent a LONG time 
doing it.

73, Jim
>
> 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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