Good Morning...
I've purchased an Aluma 50' Crank Up with
the ground mounting post option. The post
consists of a heavy wall galvanized pipe
that is placed in a six foot hole. Antenna
is a two element Cubex Quad (20-6 meters)
with a remote antenna switch mounted on the quad boom.
I have a couple of questions for the group:
1. Would I be safe in assuming that the mounting
post would be effective as a large ground rod?
The hole is backfilled with sand or ag slag to
plumb the post after it's placed in the ground.
Would it be overkill to drive a couple of ground
rods and tie the tower, mounting post and ground
rods with heavy guage copper wire?
2. I'm planning on using LMR-400DB, buried in 4"
plastic conduit to the base of the tower and
LMR-400 Flexi to the antenna. Sound like that
barrel connector would be a good place to ground
the coax braid as described in recent posts to
the Reflector. Comments?
3. What's the best way to electrically bond/ground the
two sections of crank-up tower? Again, referring
to recent posts...how does one ground the top of
a crank-up tower (other than through the coax braid?
Thanks...
Ray
ND8L
Hubbard, OH
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