Grounding question for FREECELL/others

[RoadWarrior]

Hi,

Ok the issue on a outside safety ground. FREECELL, the
articles you post on grounding are good, but, questions
still come to my mind.
Ok, i have all three of my tower legs grounded to
there own groundrods, spaced 6 ft apart. According to
some articles this spacing is to close. Right or wrong?
Then, i have a copper wire hooked to the first ground-rod
with a acorn clamp and that wire hooks to the other
2 ground-rods with acorn clamps to tie the system
together. All ground-wire is #4 solid copper. 8ft copper rods.
Then, from 1 ground-rod i have a run of copper wire to
other ground-rods spaced 16ft apart that runs to my
electric service/cable/phone ground-rod/s...
Do i need to make any changes??? Thanks

 

[freecell]

what is your total resistance to earth?

 

[blackjack]

how do you check that freecell

 

[freecell]

you can find that information here........

http://www.firecommunications.com/chap10.pdf
http://www.firecommunications.com/groundprinciples.pdf

 

[RoadWarrior]

Resistance is 12 there Freecell.
My soil is 3 1/2 ft of dark soil. And beneath that is
wet clay.
P.S. FREECELL: I have tried clicking on the links
in your above post, but, get a forbidden to access
warning.

 

[RoadWarrior]

When i started my ground system i was using a regular
ohm meter and it read 0 ohms. I knew that probably
was not correct, so, i bought a more expensive meter
designed for reading grounding systems. It read 26 ohms
with 1 ground-rod. Slowly went down after adding more
rods. It's reading 12 ohms right now with whole system
intact. Whether the new meter is accurate or not, i do not
know.

 

[skirtchaser]

Greetings,
When I had my first base setup, I had an interesting sort of inneptitude at work, I had created an excelent ground loop (BAD) by running ground strap to my bench ground and running ground wire to my mast, all into a 6' ground rod. When I changed to the current setup, things improved ten fold. Running the burried loop of copper cable arround the house (roughly a 55' semi circle) with the antenna in the center at 36' feet AGL mast grounded to the circle, and the bench ground is attatched to the casing of my well shaft casing (approx. 950 feet into the ground) I have an excelent ground system reading 16 ohms on the loop and 6ohms on the casing.
Punchin' out.........