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Bud--

wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:30:56 -0500, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:

Part of this was because I am a ham radio operator and had put up a 60 foot
tower and wanted to know what the code said about having several ground rods
and how to connect them .
I was the inspector on a big radio equipment shelter and tower
project, putting dozens of these around several counties. They used a
grounding system that picked up the foundation of the shelter
building, a ground ring, the pad and foundation of the tower and
buried bare copper radials going to rods out about 50 feet from the
tower. It created a good ground plane for the transmitter and a great
grounding electrode for lightning and other transients that would
affect the service

A 60 ft tower does sound like a good lightning target unless you live
in Nome. You might want to look at 810 also.

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bud--