[Boatanchors] new Ground system

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:18:13 -0500

It shall never cease to amaze me, the volume of responses any question regarding
a station ground system invariably generates! The vast majority of Hams, and
radio devotees, either have an inadequate ground system or none at all. There
are several who actually have gone to the other end of the scale and committed
the ultimate sin of ground overkill. I am speaking of commercial broadcast
stations ground systems for the Shack, on a smaller scale, of course. 	

I spent a great deal of time carefully researching this subject. I designed, and
built, a station ground system that truly works, is efficient and does what one
is supposed to do, both in theory and in reality. No, I am not bragging or
poking fun at anyone. What I have works and my years of NCS operation with
effective erp and good receive ability demenstrate it to be so. 	

It was once said by some wise philosopher, the name I know not, and I therefore
paraphrase his words here; that every human is born with two things; a rectum
and an opinion! There being little discernable difference between the two. 	

Enjoy the profusion of ground system comments, complaints, commentaries and
suggestions. Then be brave, build one that truly works. (grin)	

Duane W8DBF

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From: Gary Schafer <[email protected]>
To: Arthur Shulman <[email protected]>
Cc: Glen Zook <[email protected]>; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] new Ground system
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:56 PM

A lot depends on whether the soil is acidic or alkaline as to what it eats
up.

73
Gary  K4FMX

Arthur Shulman wrote:

> Thank you all! I stand corrected; of course it would depend on the soil
> the wire is buried in. I did not have that experience over a period of 4
> years when I buried my radial/grounds. Just lucky, I guess.
>
> But I won't try that again. Thanks for the advice - well founded!
>
> Arthur Shulman
>
> Glen Zook wrote:
>
> > In most soils, the aluminum will "disappear" in less
> > than 6 months!  You can use galvanized electric fence
> > wire that is sold by the 1/4 and 1/2 mile reels at
> > home improvement centers.  The cost is normally under
> > $10 for 1/4 mile.  I have had some of that in the
> > ground for almost 30 years.  But, I know of several
> > local amateurs who put in thousands of feet of
> > aluminum wire for counterpoises for verticals that,
> > when they just happened to pull on the end of the
> > wire, about 6 inches came out.  The rest had basically
> > disentegrated.
> >
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
> > --- Arthur Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Have you considered getting a 1000' reel of aluminum
> > #4 wire used for grounding TV masts? Real cheap, and
> > just as effective as copper for this purpose.
> >
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