This would be a very good question for the Tower Talk mailing list, where there are plenty of experts who can help you.
TowerTalk is hosted at the lists.contesting.com web site. Jack Brindle, W6FB Sent from my iPad On May 9, 2013, at 11:16 AM, W8JH <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a new tower and have a grounding question. My tower is on the west > side of the house. The service entrance is on the east side of the house > and the house is about 55 feet long. > I understand I should tie together the tower ground rod and the service > ground rod. The question is about how best to accomplish this with two > options apparent to me. > 1. Run a ground wire into the house and connect to the water pipes. This is > about a 10 foot run to the water pipes which are tied to the service > entrance ground at the other end of the house. > 2. Bury a wire around the house to tie the two together. This would be > about a 75 foot run. > > Asking the collective wisdom here- option 1 or option 2? > > > > > > ----- > 73, > > Joe, W8JH > K3 1713, KPA 132 > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-Tower-grounding-tp7573525.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
