For pure electrical ground, I agree with Jerry 100%. Keep your tower
grounded separately from your ham shack and
equipment. Jerry Harley another electrical engineer
At 12:52 PM 11/08/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I dislike guy wire insulators and like to use the guy wires to spread
>out the tower grounding too. With my tower grounds separated from the
>house grounds I suffer no damage from direct hits on the tower.
>
>73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
>Stuart Rohre wrote:
> >
> > Ideal grounding theory now advocates putting ring heavy conductor all
> around
> > the house. Attach to this the power ground at meter, (in addition to its
> > rod), telephone ground wire, and its rod; rig entry panel ground, and
> > depending on how far the tower is from the house, a bond to the tower.
> > However, the tower should have crowfoot grounds from each leg into the
> > earth. Do not allow the tower hit to have a better path back to the house
> > than dissipating close to the tower legs.
> > 73,
> > Stuart
> > K5KVH
> >
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