Richard
The tower's a 48' Trylon self-supporting affair.
The base, rebar cage, and additional rebar driven into the hole walls for
positioning are all welded together.
The contractor made damn sure the base will remain plumb during the pour.
I intend to use 3 - 6 additional rods outside the cage attached to the legs
with big cable.
Not familiar with the term "Ufer"?
73
H.

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:32:57 -0600, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote:

Concrete pour for the tower in Monday at 7AM.

Hi OM,

Bond the rebar cage and have a lead to it accessible for an Ufer
ground.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:06:25 -0600, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote:

Richard
The tower's a 48' Trylon self-supporting affair.
The base, rebar cage, and additional rebar driven into the hole walls for
positioning are all welded together.
The contractor made damn sure the base will remain plumb during the pour.
I intend to use 3 - 6 additional rods outside the cage attached to the legs
with big cable.
Not familiar with the term "Ufer"?
73
H.

Hi OM,

Concrete is conductive and with the large surface area presents quite
an electrode - the Ufer ground. Providing for a connection to its
metal interior insures you have access to this characteristic (and
with the rebar welded, insures that there will be no exploding
concrete at the J-Bolts due to current crowding if/when lightning
strikes).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:06:25 -0600, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote:

Richard
The tower's a 48' Trylon self-supporting affair.
The base, rebar cage, and additional rebar driven into the hole walls for
positioning are all welded together.
The contractor made damn sure the base will remain plumb during the pour.
I intend to use 3 - 6 additional rods outside the cage attached to the
legs
with big cable.
Not familiar with the term "Ufer"?
73
H.

Hi OM,

Concrete is conductive and with the large surface area presents quite
an electrode - the Ufer ground. Providing for a connection to its
metal interior insures you have access to this characteristic (and
with the rebar welded, insures that there will be no exploding
concrete at the J-Bolts due to current crowding if/when lightning
strikes).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Hi Richard
Lightning and the practicalities (no J-bolts, tower leg extension into the
concrete, holding the damn thing still during the pour) pretty much require
all the metal to be welded together. Then I'll put several good rods around
the base a few feet out.
I've seen lightning strike concrete; blew a 3 foot hole.
73
H.

This will be my last feeding of the Troll(s) in this OT thread...

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

"Old Ed" wrote -
Reg, this may come as a surprise to you,

=============================

Ed, I judge from from your writing you are an intelligent and educated USA
voter.

Guilty as charged.

The only thing which surprises me is how you manage to confuse slander
with facts.

Alas dear Reg, I'm afraid you describe yourself here.

I take only one point from your message -

The ONLY terrorist attacks on the UK have ALL come from the Irish
Republican Army - financed by charitable USA citizens, the CIA, and
indirectly by USA governments regardless of political views.

I would be very surprised if the Islamic terrorists have not managed even
one small attack in the UK; but if that's true, your police, military and
intelligence services must be doing an excellent job.

But your IRA problems are because of the CIA??? And their motivation
would be WHAT???

Good grief Reg! Is there ANY anti-US lie that is too absurd and stupid
for you to believe? Try this one: All your missing persons have been
abducted by alien flying saucers, under contract with the CIA. (You have
now seen it on the Net, so it must be true!)

Who needs enemies with 'special-relationship' friends like that?

I think our "special relationship" is real, but applies primarily to
(sane) people of good will, in both countries--not the crazies.

USA citizens have no enemies who wish you harm.

This pearl is right up there with your CIA sponsorship of the IRA.

You GOTTA get those toxics out of your system. When you do, read up
on an outfit popularly known as Al Qaeda.

But you still suffer from
"Reds Under the Bed." which, like WMD, are non-existent.

No Reds under my bed, just storage boxes and dust bunnies.

It's good to know that WMD are non-existent, though. Maybe this
explains why you are the only one that thinks we're using them.

----
Reg.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:21:17 GMT, "Old Ed"
wrote:

This will be my last feeding of the Troll(s) in this OT thread...

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

"Old Ed" wrote -
Reg, this may come as a surprise to you,

=============================

Ed, I judge from from your writing you are an intelligent and educated USA
voter.

Guilty as charged.

The only thing which surprises me is how you manage to confuse slander
with facts.

Alas dear Reg, I'm afraid you describe yourself here.

I take only one point from your message -

The ONLY terrorist attacks on the UK have ALL come from the Irish
Republican Army - financed by charitable USA citizens, the CIA, and
indirectly by USA governments regardless of political views.

I would be very surprised if the Islamic terrorists have not managed even
one small attack in the UK; but if that's true, your police, military and
intelligence services must be doing an excellent job.

But your IRA problems are because of the CIA??? And their motivation
would be WHAT???

Good grief Reg! Is there ANY anti-US lie that is too absurd and stupid
for you to believe? Try this one: All your missing persons have been
abducted by alien flying saucers, under contract with the CIA. (You have
now seen it on the Net, so it must be true!)

Who needs enemies with 'special-relationship' friends like that?

I think our "special relationship" is real, but applies primarily to
(sane) people of good will, in both countries--not the crazies.

USA citizens have no enemies who wish you harm.

This pearl is right up there with your CIA sponsorship of the IRA.

You GOTTA get those toxics out of your system. When you do, read up
on an outfit popularly known as Al Qaeda.

But you still suffer from
"Reds Under the Bed." which, like WMD, are non-existent.

Sorry to piggy-back on your post, but apparently, there *WERE* "reds
under the bed. I would direct your attention to "Mask of Treachery"
by John Costello. In it is detailed the penetration of MI-5 and MI-6
by the Cambridge gang of traitors. There is enough information in
there to demonstrate that James Angelton was right, there was a
considerable amount of KGB and GRU penetration of the CIA and the US
Department of State. One of FDR's personal assistants was probably a
KGB or GRU spy. Another good book is "Operation Solo" by John Barron.
It details the life of a top CPUSA operative named Morris Childs who
was an FBI spy. The Soviets funneled (documented) millions of dollars
into the CPUSA.

Russ


No Reds under my bed, just storage boxes and dust bunnies.

It's good to know that WMD are non-existent, though. Maybe this
explains why you are the only one that thinks we're using them.

----
Reg.