You can use 3" copper strap buried in the ground to
go from one point to the other, spaced away from the
house and with a wide radius for any needed bends.
I did that here with the telephone entry 30' down one
wall and the utility/CATV entry 'around the corner' and
down another wall from the shack's SPG.
73 de Billy, AA4NU
-----Original Message-----
>From: RICHARD SOLOMON <w1ksz@q.com>
>Sent: Oct 6, 2008 6:40 PM
>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?
>
>This is all well and good, but what do you do when the Service Ground is 75
>feet away on the other side of the house ?
>
>73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>
>
>> From: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> To: towertalk@contesting.com> Date: Mon, 6
>> Oct 2008 11:29:24 -0700> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for
>> RF ground?> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:02:40 -0600, Ronald D Lowrance wrote:> >
>> >One very important point is that the majority of Amateurs Radio Operators >
>> >ignore and disregard is the connection of the station ground rod to the >
>> >house main entrance ground rod. > > If this statement is true, it means
>> that this majority is STUPID. The National > Electric Code was written by
>> VERY SMART engineers. It is UNSAFE to violate the > NEC grounding and
>> bonding requirements. > > >This prevents strange RF issues such as "ground
>> loops".> > Horse pucky. Virtually all commonly held beliefs about "ground
>> loops" are "old > wives' tales, based on a complete lack of understanding of
>> the science, about > how power systems are wired, and about how antennas
>> work. > > See the tutorials on Power and Grounding and on Interfacing Ham
>> Gear and > Compu
t
> ers on http://audiosystemsgroup.com/publish> > 73,> > Jim Brown K9YC> > >
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