[WISPA] Mountain Top Grounding

2009-08-23 Thread D. Ryan Spott
I have a site I am putting in on a mountain-top consisting of stacked rocks. Well, they were stacked by glaciers, Techtonic movements, Paul Bunyan etc... Mostly 6-30 across with bedrock downthere somewhere. Do any of you have a site like this? How did you or the site owner ground the

Re: [WISPA] Mountain Top Grounding

2009-08-23 Thread Gary Garrett
All of my sites are like that. Your real ground is the Power company neutral. They pound a rod at every meter, transformer, and splice box. Each pole also has a copper plate on the bottom with the weight of the pole on it. All the way back to Hoover Dam. Drive the ground rods at a little

Re: [WISPA] Mountain Top Grounding

2009-08-23 Thread Tom Sharples
the dirt as convenient. Tom S. - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott rsp...@cspott.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:22 PM Subject: [WISPA] Mountain Top Grounding I have a site I am putting in on a mountain-top consisting of stacked rocks