Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:51:37 -0500
I have read the threads on SPG over the years, but I think I don't really understand a couple of concepts that are fundamental. Maybe someone can help. I live in a 4000 square foot ranch house which
Gary, Your thinking isn't 'crooked', so it doesn't need straightening. You are confused by the term SPG. It does NOT mean that EVERYTHING is tied to ONE POINT! The ground you have outside your shack
Let me see if I can take a whack at this. Make sure phone and power grounds are tied together. When you get a lightning strike where do you want the power to go? Down your switch wires and coax or do
Unfortunately, you are too. :) WRONG! DEAD WRONG! All equipment in the shack should be bonded together by very short, beefy copper. This combination of bonds is what goes to the earth electrode. Furt
Now I'm confused. I (will) have a main panel on the garage wall. The power company ground rod is right there. It's not much of a ground rod. There's a sub panel up in the radio room over the garage.
That's a good reason to improve on it by adding more, separated by the distance equal to the length of the rod. Very good. As K1TTT noted a few weeks ago, those arrestors should be very close to the
I can't resist chipping in with my experience at the other end of the "protection" spectrum. I put up a 100 foot commercial tower (200 lb 20 foot sections) about 40 years ago. Guyed with heavy duty p
This is NOT what the grounding instructions say in my Yaesu FT-950 manual. Traditionally, this list adheres to : "Do what the manufacturer says". I am getting several interpretation of "SPG" here, an
Hi Bill, I have NEVER said that as a blanket statement, and I probably never will (except on the rare occasions when they happen to be right). Yaesu is not going to replace your radio or your house i