[Elecraft] best grounding technique

[Jim Brown]

On 3/20/2021 8:05 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
> Commercial communication site practice

Note that commercial communications is VHF/UHF, with vertical antennas 
at the top of towers, often on mountaintops. Our antenna systems and 
site locations are often rather different. Take these differences into 
account when applying them to our stations, which may be VERY different. 
Their antennas, for example, are all vertical sticks on a tower.

I had the experience of setting up a ham station at a decommissioned 
AT&T Long Lines microwave site on a 3,000 ft peak with a 140 ft tower 
(36 ft square at the base, 24 ft square at the top), and studied their 
grounding. VERY different application, VERY different budget. They spent 
$1Meg on the road to the site. Walls were 14-in thick, and removable to 
allow the installation of equipment. Grounding was textbook for THEIR 
system, which was all microwave dishes.

73, Jim K9YC