[RFI] w7ekb & ground rods

[EDWARDS, EDDIE J]

Excellent point Jim.  All services' grounds (AC, telephone, television, internet and ham shack cable entry point & ham tower) must be bonded to a single-point ground system.  There's no limit on number of ground rods as long as they're bonded (i.e. tied to the same grounding system).  8 foot ground rods need to be within 16 ft of each other, but can be closer if needed to shorten cable run to each service ground connection.

Couple more good references for grounding and bonding standards from Motorola & Harris:
http://www.radioandtrunking.com/downloads/motorola/R56_2005_manual.pdf 
http://www.repeater-builder.com/ge/lbi-library/t4618r3a.pdf 

73, de ed -K0iL

-----Original Message-----
From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 2:27 PM
To: rfi at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] w7ekb & ground rods

On Thu,1/15/2015 11:55 AM, Bill W7KXB wrote:
> Ken: Better read up on issues that arise with multiple ground rods for home AC grounding. I don't have the info at hand but you'll find it on the www

The only "issues" that arise is failing to bond them together. The 
simple rule -- you can have as many earth electrodes as you like, but 
they MUST be bonded together, and to the power system safety ground bus 
at the service entrance.

http://k9yc.com/GroundingAndAudio.pdf

73, Jim K9YC
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