Yeah, but radial wires start to lose effectiveness for dissipating lightning
past about 50' or so. You would be better off to take that 175' and cut it
in 3 or 4 pieces and lay them out like radials under the tower.
The connection between my towers and the shack ground system consists of
100' to 500' lengths of guy wire or aircraft cable holding up the multiple
runs of hardline going to each tower or remote antenna. I agree that the
shield(s) of the hardline is probably a much better equalizer than a buried
wire over those distances.
David Robbins K1TTT
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-----Original Message-----
From: john nistico [mailto:electric911inc@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 00:11
To: Vincent Weal; wc1m73@gmail.com
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to AC power box or inside fuse panel?
When it comes to lightning protection more is better. If the 1/0 copper wire
was bare in the trench it would dissipate a lightning strike much better.
This is what we do on houses all the time.
John J. Nistico
911 Electric Inc.
516.356.6071
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:37:34 -0500
> From: k4jc@arrl.net
> To: wc1m73@gmail.com
> CC: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to AC power box or inside fuse panel?
>
> Dick, I want to thank you for this post. I have been trying to find an
> answer to this question for years, but no one seemed to have a
> definitive answer. Can you tell me where I can find the article you
referred to?
>
> My tower is going to be 175 feet from the shack and I wasn't looking
> forward to dropping all that dough on grounding wire!
>
> 73, Vince K4JC
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >"Another example is bonding the tower ground to the single-point
> >ground at
> the house. My first tower farm is 265' from the house. Being new to
> tower construction, I laid 265 feet of 1/0 ground wire in the trench
> running between the two locations in order to bond the ground systems.
> This was not cheap, to say the least (though it was before the big run
> up in copper
> prices.) Later, I read an article by Polyphaser that said if the
> ground systems are more than 75' apart it does no good to bond them --
> the wire inductance will be too high to make an effective connection.
> With this in mind, when I installed my second tower system in a different
location 220'
> from the house, I did not run a separate ground wire. The Polyphaser
> argument made sense to me. Also, there are two runs of 1-5/8" hardline
> in the trench, and the gigantic copper shields on those babies surely
> provide a lower inductance path between the tower and house than a 1/0
> wire would
> -- if, in fact, any wire has low enough inductance at that length to
> be effective.
>
> 73, Dick WC1M"
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