[Elecraft] KPA500 and KAT500 for sale

[Clay Autery]

That wire would have been a det-cord wick into that structure at full 
shot.  Blessings large and small!

Be well, Jim!

Clay E. Autery, Jr.
KY5G

On 6/2/2025 12:52 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 6/2/2025 9:40 AM, Bob McGraw wrote:
>> We had a similar situation where the cable company did not ground 
>> their cable to the AC Mains ground nor did they even provide a driven 
>> ground for their system.
>
> Probably around '89, when the home we bought in the Santa Cruz 
> Mountains 15 years later was rebuilt, a telco installer ran the 
> "ground" for his drop on about 50 ft of #10 to the outlet for a garden 
> hose, which was fed by PVC pipe. The only earth connection was outside 
> the kitchen of the detached "mother-in-law" garage apartment (now my 
> shack). The bond from it to the panel in that building was #10 running 
> up through the ceiling across the building, down the outside wall, to 
> a single driven rod. I also found 120V outlets in that kitchen wired 
> between one leg of 240V and the green wire.
>
> Luckily, I didn't have lightning damage before finding these issues 
> and fixing them.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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