RE: RF grounding without rod pounding?

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Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Garry-at-NDFC-dot-com>

I have gotta get my ham license renewed soon, but I remember reading in a
ham publication about grounding ham game and it spoke about possible
resonation with a grounding wire that length that was just right to resonate
with the fundamental or harmonic frequencies of a ham radio. I assume the
same could happen with a TC where the grounding wire acts like an antenna
radiating RF. I remember the article spoke of making a grounding wire out of
coax where there was a capacitor at each end that was accross the center
wire and the shielding. I think it was a 5kv cap at about 500uF or
something. I know the value for the cap might need to be very much higher to
handle the voltages from a TC but I am not sure.

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Subject: Re: RF grounding without rod pounding?


Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
	Where I live ground rods are just about worthless.  I managed to get
4
eight foot rods in the ground, and found afterwords that the resistance
between rods is about 600 ohms!  Good connection to the 100+ feet of 2"
copper feeder line from the water meter at the street worked MUCH
better.  

Ed