Greetings, My wife and I are having a new house built. I'm looking for suggestions for things that I can do (or have done) during construction to help with setting up my ham station at the new house.
Mark: The reason the neutral of the power line is grounded outside the house at the meter is for safety. It is to try to keep any lightening strike on the distibution lines from running into your hou
Mark, I put my tower about 250 feet from the house. This means most of the noise generated from the house is greatly reduced. I have almost no computer noise or TV receiver noise. Getting the antenna
Hi Mark, Sounds like a fun time......enjoy it! My suggestion is not the slightest bit technical, but comes from experience. When you are laying out your shack, make it twice as big as you think you w
Also do a search for Polyphaser company. They have several publications on grounding and such and contain a wealth of information. They also make excellent quality suppression devices, etc. J/KM6VX M
All good advice. There is a relatively new wrinkle to ham friendly homes and that is RF noise leakage and generation. All appliances many new lighting schemes and all high speed data access systems a
"I wish I had run 120v out to the tower for soldering out there. " Another reason I suggested burying a PVC pipe. Leave a piece of rope in it and you can pull more cables whenever you want. So did I.
Author: geraldj@ames.net (Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:11:48 -0600
Run 4" PVC conduit anywhere you might want to make an antenna coax run. Include drains for the underground run and ends with gentle U bends to keep rain out. Use conduit sweeps, not plumbing elbows f
One would think that here in the new millennium we would see future thinking ham shacks. To address this question in the simplest manner I would recommend a small equipment shack near the base of the
Mark, Ground rods are located outside in the soil because it is not a good idea to run them through concrete. The heat generated in the rod from a direct lightning strike is enough to shatter the con
Hi Mark: Congrats on your new undertaking. A few comments: for setting looking tower Hazer on have I don't know what a "Glenn Martin 70ft tower" (Rohn?) is but make sure it's located so there are no
After making it through all the suggestions for you, I see someone finally recommended the ring ground .... good. That leaves me with one (or two) recommendation: Depending on how robust your shack i