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1. [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: gregory helman <turkee56@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
i am planing putting up a new tower and beam. now on my ham station equipment what is the best way to ground tuner, radio etc to my station to my ground rod. to avoid ground loops do i use tuner as m
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00000.html (6,073 bytes)

2. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: rrath@charter.net
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:37:08 -0700
Gregory, I have always been told not to Daisey Chain when possible. I was told to run the ground wire to a bus bar (I use a 12" pc of copper pipe) and then ground all my equipment to the bus bar. As
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00001.html (8,013 bytes)

3. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "gregory helman" <turkee56@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:03:56 -0400
rod, thanks for info. i also made a bus bar from 1 in. copper pipe and will use this for my grounding my equipment. how long are your leads from from your ham equipment to the ground bus and is your
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00002.html (10,494 bytes)

4. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: Danny Richardson <k6mhe@adelphia.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:07:29 -0700
You should use a single point grounding system. Check out PolyPhaser's paper "Lightning Protection for Ham Radio Stations " http://www.polyphaser.com/datasheets/PEN1016.pdf It is chucked full of very
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00003.html (8,275 bytes)

5. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: rrath@charter.net
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:13:42 -0700
I use insulated wire and the length is just what is needed to reach each item, plus 3". Rod _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.contesting
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00004.html (10,145 bytes)

6. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "John K9UWA" <k9uwa@arrl.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:22:44 -0500
My Advice is a little different... go to this website http://www.arraysolutions.com/prod_category.htm You want one single ground system to include your power line ground, phone line ground, cable tv
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00005.html (8,755 bytes)

7. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: erik@n0ew.org
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:41:18 -0500
CAVEATS: 1. National Electric Code (NEC) has all the info you seek. And it makes for fun reading too! 2. If in doubt, hire an electrician. (No, I'm not a union electrician, hehehe) 3. "Polyphaser" h
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00006.html (13,905 bytes)

8. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "John K9UWA" <k9uwa@arrl.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:48:58 -0500
DUH.... sorry I meant here 3/8" ID.... NOT 3/4".. copper tubing. And as others mentioned read the POLYPHASER grounding book .. manual ... PDF file I might add a little here.... I have three towers...
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00007.html (10,351 bytes)

9. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Ed -K0iL" <eedwards@TCONL.COM>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:47:32 -0500
Lot's of good responses, and I also highly recommend the Polyphaser web site and the technical papers sections. They have one paper just for ham shacks. Polyphaser equipment is used extensively by th
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00008.html (9,005 bytes)

10. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Neverdosky" <1twidget@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:04:23 -0800
Quick quiz! What is the ground resistance of your ground system and how was it measured? If you don't know the value of the ground resistance, how do you know if the system is installed and working p
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00009.html (9,050 bytes)

11. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "KC2TN" <kc2tn@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:39:24 -0400
Just to add a few notes; I just took a DIRECT Hit on my tower. I had all of the Polyphaser protectors in place with a significant grounding field. 24 ground rods spaced appropriately all connected wi
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00010.html (8,945 bytes)

12. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:48:36 +0000
the radioworks book has good advice and is worth following. of course they are trying to sell their merchandise but it is easy to get past that and follow the advice. I had awful RF in my tx audio un
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00011.html (12,430 bytes)

13. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:39:40 -0400
I'd wager you missed something else besides the LAN cable, like perhaps a bond between all the cables entering the room? I have nowhere near that type of ground system at the house, don't have a sin
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00012.html (9,707 bytes)

14. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: Alan NV8A <nv8a@att.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:39:37 -0400
I've set up a wireless link for the PC connected to the radio precisely to get around that problem. 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com ht
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00013.html (8,927 bytes)

15. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:43:29 -0400
That's all fine, but a ground won't prevent a tower from getting hit. The best ground in the world will make zero difference in the number of strikes. 73 Tom ________________________________________
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00014.html (9,104 bytes)

16. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Mike at RFI Services" <mike@rfiservices.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:55:05 -0400
I hope you guys don't mind this story. I know it's true. If you don't believe me you can ask my Papa. I was 1970, I was 11 years old and visiting my grandfather(Papa) on his small cattle farm in Mary
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00015.html (10,331 bytes)

17. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: rrath@charter.net
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:57:21 -0700
Your right Tom. I just think I have been very lucky not to have had any problems with lightning for living here so long and next to the sub station that gets struck a lot. My ground system is not suf
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00016.html (9,889 bytes)

18. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "KC2TN" <kc2tn@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:20:20 -0400
Actually, Tom, quite the contrary....All of my cables are bonded at the top of the tower AND at the bottom of the tower. There's only 15 feet between the tower and the entrance panel. All the cables
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00017.html (10,942 bytes)

19. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:06:55 -0400
....and the entrance panel is bonded to the shack cable entrance how? I have a halo ground buss. It's buried copper tubing that circles my house. I wouldn't be without it, even though the only groun
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00018.html (10,112 bytes)

20. Re: [RFI] grounding your ham equipment (score: 1)
Author: Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:35:59 +0100
Neither would I. Any advice to use that technique is impractical because it ignores the realities of station layout, and forgets what the in-shack 'grounding' is trying to achieve. We would like to k
/archives//html/RFI/2006-07/msg00019.html (11,025 bytes)


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