[RFI] House Ground

[Bill Price]

My house was built in 2005... Although there's a ground for the panel, I have noticed that there is another ground for the natural gas manifold that feeds all the gas appliances. #6 wire goes from that manifold ground to the copper pipes of the water heater, where the grounding wire wraps several times around the copper pipes..... Good, yes? LMAO!.   The copper pipes (inlet and outlet to the water heater) are connected to pex. For those of you not familiar with pex, pex is the new water pipe runs and is plastic. So ground at this point, essentially goes to plastic. BRILLIANT!!

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> On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:34 PM, EDWARDS, EDDIE J <eedwards at oppd.com> wrote:
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> Tom, 
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> If you have 3 conductor outlets (not just 2 cond), your electrical panel probably has a ground wire connected to your cold water pipe somewhere.  That's how I found mine wired before I added a connection to my outdoor ground rods along the back of the house for my ham shack.  Now everything's bonded together on an underground buss.  My house was built in about 1977-78 so cold water copper pipes were probably still code then.  I think recent water piping changes may have made that a thing of the past.
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> 73, de ed -K0iL
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> I have just noticed that my home built in the 60's does not have an earth ground outside. Could that be causing some some of my weird RFI situations I am encountering. Been here a year almost now and just now really getting on the air.Symptoms ate noisy monitor (already put a lot of chokes on the leads), Monitor screen blacks out when treansmitting on 40 ... Ideas?Tom K5IID  Finally there is a bit of joy in Mudville!https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dfwcontest.com&d=AwIGaQ&c=KgDGbrDOIOvJdwLyCTObPw&r=5aFEx9CkHUJJdxAWDOCR8VIwoRl23XYTbLFTTk9oCJ8&m=NtYS9ooy8bPEPkfZRwoGzA8L6qmPoIxcI05A6ebNSTo&s=t_CZB2KbpEBiXCY2A7jh5ph_DMJvTvY5Rnn8RNHSBxM&e=  K5IID Tom HortonFt. Worth Texas, 76133E sorter for ARRL W5 bureauSame call since 1956
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