Thanks for all the info

I am going to ground out the satellite dish to the tower.

Now it is grounded to my new plazma and I would feel more comfortable with
it grounded to the tower. Don't want nothing happening to that new plazma.
Now of course if it ever got hit by lightning I would imagine the receiver
would get fried, maybe not the tv, the coax goes into the receiver, then
into the yamaha sourround sound then into the tv. A jolt has to stop
somewhere along that line.





"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:08:23 -0700, "Sal" wrote:

"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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Well, if you're going to go through all that trouble to install a
proper ground, you can do as well using Unistrut instead of a 2x4.
http://www.unistrut.us

Unistrut is wonderful. About 20 years ago, I used to engineer
installations
in a big government lab in San Diego and it was the customer's preferred
method for anything structural that didn't involve concrete. :-)

I learned you could do anything with Unistrut. It's the Erector Set /
Lego
Blocks for grown-up kids.

"Sal"

Agreed. However, you have to be careful using Unistrut for outriggers
on towers. Unistrut doesn't do well when twisted (in torsion) by a
top heavy antenna. The only way that seems to work well on a tower
are two 1 1/2" channel Unistrut outriggers, with a connecting pipe for
mounting the antenna, dish, or whatever. A single outrigger usually
results in a the antenna twisting around in the wind. (1 1/4" will
work with light antennas).

Something like this:
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv44/ahwwwjeah/My%20Tower/DSCF6120.jpg
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