KC8TES: I, too, am not an expert on lightning or lightning protection.
However, I fail to see how grounding or not grounding has anything to do
with "receive signals and QRP transmit." If you're using end-fed wires and
ground-mounted verticals, sure -- a good reference, be it a real earth
ground or an image plane, helps a lot.
Personally, I have no ground system of any kind, and cannot remember the
last time I had one of any kind. In 37 years of hamming from 14 houses, I
don't think I've ever had a ground system. I use current-driven antennas
like beams on towers, and with or without any kind of ground, they work
exactly the same. My towers have always been planted in large blocks of
concrete going down 6' or so underground, and full of re-bar, and that's my
outside "ground." My inside ground is the green (third) wire in all my
power cords...
WB2WIK/6
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -
Mario Andretti
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Connelly [SMTP:jerryc@clinchrivercorp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 2:52 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Fw: [Towertalk] silver solder ok for Ground wire to rod ?
>
> Don
> I am the first to admit that I am not an expert, but I understand
> that the ground system's first jobs are to provide a ground reference
> for rf and to eliminate static charge buildup that could attract a strike.
> Its last duty would be to carry off current from a strike. Recieve
> signals
> and qrp transmit would have big problems with a poor ground.
> If I am off base here, someone help me out.
> JerryC
> KC8TES
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Connelly" <jerryc@clinchrivercorp.com>
> To: <K9MUF@aol.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] silver solder ok for Ground wire to rod ?
>
>
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't understand all the fuss about ground wire connections having
> to
> be
> > > cadwelded
> > > etc. That lightning strike has just traveled hundreds or thousands of
> feet
> > > through the air to get to that connection. It is not going to be
> stopped
> > by a
> > > few thousands of an inch or a little corrision in the connection.
> > >
> > > Don K9MUF
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