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Re: [RFI] Long distance grounding

To: "Dave Cook" <davepc2@netdave.com>, rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] Long distance grounding
From: "Cortland Richmond" <ka5s@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: ka5s@earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:17 -0400
List-post: <mailto:rfi@contesting.com>
Sometimes it helps to remember that "ground" is just a low impedance at all
the frequencies we want to divert current -- and a sink that has no bad
effects when we  do.

Glen Dash used to recommend a huge sheet of aluminum; capacitance to free
space up to a nF, and therefore a reasonably low impedance. Carpet the room
with metal?   Just how badly do you *need* a "ground"?


Cortland
ka5s


> [Original Message]
> From: Dave Cook <davepc2@netdave.com>
> Given this distance, routing the ground wire would probably result in at
> least 20 feet before it reaches the main ground bus. This is located at an
> interior wall, so there's no other way to run a shorter ground outside of
> the house except straight down through an inaccessible portion of the
> crawlspace.


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