You should focus your efforts on designing and constructing a low
impedance grounding window at the location where your cables
enter your home. All cables entering your home should be bonded
to the grounding window either directly or through suitable lightning
protection devices.
There is no need whatsoever for any further grounding of your station
equipment, other than the green wires from your equipment to your
AC power receptacles.
73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@erols.com
----- Original Message -----
From: N6KJ <n6kj@yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Station Ground
> At the moment, my rig and amplifier ground lugs
> are not connected to anything. I have no stray
> RF problems or RFI that I am aware of (except a
> little bit of TVI when operating 40/80 which I've
> never been able to solve). The manufacturer always
> says you should connect up the ground lug. So far, I
> have not done that but I WILL do it if-and-only-if
> it doesn't make things worse. My assumption is that
> the ground lug is there for a reason Maybe this is a
> bad assumption, but ....
>
> The primary reason for my questions today is:
> I am going to start on a home addition soon. As of
> today, my rig is located in the basement next to an
> outside wall. I can easily get to a ground rod
> that is located only about 5 feet from my
> rig. This will no longer be true once the addition
> is built. Once the addition is built, my rig
> will still be in the basement but the wall will
> no longer be an outside wall, SO if I ever want a
> good ground system with a short connection to ground
> then I need to do it now. I don't have to hook it
> up to my rig/amp, but I have to at least drive in
> the ground rods and run a wire from the ground rods
> into the shack.
>
> I'm not worried about safety ground. I can use the
> existing safety ground OR add one later, but a good
> RF ground needs short leads to ground and that means
> building the grounding network NOW. I think I now
> have enough info from everyone to do that. Thanks.
>
>
> --- Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > At 01:39 PM 1/14/2005, you wrote:
> > >How do people attach their rigs to a bus-bar (or
> > >similar)? The bigger the ground wire the better,
> >
> > WHy would you necessarily want a huge wire? How
> > much current do you expect
> > to be carrying through that wire? Hopefully not
> > much. Sure, bigger is
> > (slightly) lower inductance, but presumably, the
> > wire is fairly
> > short. Also, is the rig chassis ground common with
> > the power supply return
> > (if 12V powered)? What about the electrical safety
> > ground (the greenwire
> > ground)?
> >
> > [ Stuff Deleted ]
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