Using a connected row of grounding rods

[simcha]

I saw an interesting web page where someone made their ground via a series of grounding rods. He sank in about 5 grounding rods a few feet apart. He then welded a copper pipe across the top of all five rods. He then welded his grounding wire into the middle of the pipe that is attached accross all the five grounding poles. Looks easy to do. I am getting ready to go to Home depot, is there a reason I should not do it?? Does anyone know if this works well?

 

[radio8z]

> I saw an interesting web page where someone made their
> ground via a series of grounding rods. He sank in about 5
> grounding rods a few feet apart. He then welded a copper
> pipe across the top of all five rods. He then welded his
> grounding wire into the middle of the pipe that is attached
> accross all the five grounding poles. Looks easy to do. I am
> getting ready to go to Home depot, is there a reason I
> should not do it?? Does anyone know if this works well?
>
Hello,

Perhaps some more research is needed before you do this. This surely will provide a good protective ground, but for an AM antenna ground which is intended to enhance radiation, it appears to be less effective than using radials.

Here is a link you can check. Go to the section on ground plane and you will see that the author mentions protective vs. radial grounds.

http://lpam.info/index.php?page=antennas

If you do build this, please let us know how it works.

Neil

 

[carlvanorden]

> > I saw an interesting web page where someone made their> > ground via a series of grounding rods. He sank in about 5> > grounding rods a few feet apart. He then welded a copper> > pipe across the top of all five rods. He then welded his> > grounding wire into the middle of the pipe that is> attached> > accross all the five grounding poles. Looks easy to do. I> am> > getting ready to go to Home depot, is there a reason I> > should not do it?? Does anyone know if this works well?> > > Hello,> > Perhaps some more research is needed before you do this. > This surely will provide a good protective ground, but for> an AM antenna ground which is intended to enhance radiation,> it appears to be less effective than using radials.> > Here is a link you can check. Go to the section on ground> plane and you will see that the author mentions protective> vs. radial grounds.> > http://lpam.info/index.php?page=antennas> > If you do build this, please let us know how it works.> > Neil> Simcha, very early in my experiments, I did do something like this. I used 10 foot ground rods, sliced in half to 5 feet. In rocky soil I was still able to bang them inbetween the rocks.I left 3 inches above ground, but instead of installing them in a straight line, I encircled them around the antenna.....I soldered stranded copper wire from one rod to the other til I got something like a circle (more like star of david), and ran a ground wire to that (basically illegal, but, wanted to see what would happen).......without a radial ground system, the transmitter showed a remarkable improvement; however the radial ground system was better than this installation, in soil (not sand).<P ID="signature">______________
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[rfry]

> I saw an interesting web page where someone made their
> ground via a series of grounding rods. He sank in about 5
> grounding rods a few feet apart. etc.
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See also http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=607449&Board=community for additional on this subject.

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