[TenTec] If you ground it - it will come!

[Randy Russe3ll]

Even if the #6 wire only connects other gnd rods to
the central ground, and is buried bare? Having a hard
time seeing the inductance problem, Running a two foot
wide strip of flat copper is a nice idea, but when you
eventually connect to your equipment, you still have a
conductor only as wide as the connection bolt. Should
I build my operating table out of a solid cast copper
block extending directly ten feet into the ground
below my shack, with a few hundred strips of flat
copper running in all directions from that? Bolt the
entire chassis of each radio to it and call it good?
Or would a faraday shield be of added benefit?  Hi Hi 


--- "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson"
<geraldj at storm.weather.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:46 -0700, Randy Russe3ll
> wrote:
> > When the Ham community and Electronics Industry
> agrees
> > on what constitutes a proper ground, would someone
> > please let me know.  I have spent some serious
> hours
> > reading every possible thing I can, so as to
> determine
> > what is the final say on  The Matter. All this
> just to
> > do the proper job, right, the first time, and know
> I'm
> > covered.  I give up.  I've bonded all my equipment
> > together by 1 ft.x1" braided straps to a 8 ft.
> long
> > strip of copper 12" in wide. It runs along my back
> > table top then directly out (thru the door
> jamb)and
> > straight to a gnd rod outside 6" from the from the
> > edge of the door frame. That ground rod connects
> with
> > two others by  #6 gauge wire, and the water pipes
> and
> > tv cables, telephone lines, are bonded to this
> also.  
> > That's as good as it's going to get.  In unsettled
> or
> > stormy weather, or when not in use for any period,
> I
> > pull the AC plugs and disconnect antennas.  I drop
> the
> > coax connector ends into a big ceramic crock, and
> put
> > the lid on.  That's just going to have to do.  
> > 
> 
> Your braid and your #6 are the weak points. They
> have too much
> inductance. The power ground and antenna ground and
> telephone ground as
> well as radio grounds should be at least a foot wide
> copper, perhaps 2'
> wide all the way.
> -- 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ,
> All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson,
> electrical engineer
> 
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