From everything I've read, the prevailing overall grounding technique
is to run a heavy duty copper wire from the grounding system around the
tower, back to the ground rod outside the shack wall as well as to run
it to the ground rod under where your AC power enters the house.
It just occurred to me that the AC ground wire, besides going into the
house and connecting to the chassis ground in the breaker box (where
also all the neutral white wires are connected) then proceeds throughout
your house and also to your ham radio shack equipment. It is here that
the ground wire also connects to all the chassis in your shack as well
as the shields on your coax connectors that also finds it way back
outside your shack wall to the ground rod; one huge ground loop. I
know that there are 2 issues here; RF grounding and lightning
protection. Any comments about that?
Thanks,
Dick, K0CAT
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