Yes, the shack ground must be connected to the utility ground.
David Robbins K1TTT
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Seidl [mailto:k9kl@centurytel.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 13:44
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Grounding towers
I know this has been beat to death on this reflector but I have a question I
don't think I have read on here before.
I have 6 towers here. One is short for a small 2 meter EME array and another
one is insulated from ground and will be a vertical for 80/160 once I finish
it.
The other 4 are the subject of this question. I recently built a new shack
in my basement and redid the grounding of it. I have 4 ground rods pounded
into the ground about 7 feet and have my station ground connected to them. I
have the ground rods connected in series and then I connected my station
ground to the line running between them. At the end of the ground chain sits
one of my towers, 85 feet of Rohn 45. This tower is connected to ground via
a ground rod. I thought I'd run the ground line further and connect my
station ground to that tower as well. Then I got to thinking if it would
help to connect the other towers as well. Is it practice to connect them in
series? That would require less wire then paralel (sp).
Also can one connect the power feed ground to this same ground? I don't want
to have a better ground then the Public Service and have all those issues
like we did when I had a dairy farm and had some issues with stray voltage.
I am also on sort of a budget and don't want to spend tons of money on
copper that isn't really going to do any good. I'm trying to find a happy
meduim of protection,safety and improved radio preformance via a better
ground with less noise pickup.
Any ideas would be great and reasons why would be fantastic.
Gregg K9KL
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