[TowerTalk] Grounding Rod Lenght

[Alan Beagley]

At what point does one bond the lightning and RF grounds to the utility 
company's ground? I have read "at the service entrance panel"; does that 
mean I have to bring a conductor from the lightning/RF grounds into the 
building to connect to the ground bus in the panel, or can I clamp it to 
the conduit (after scraping down to bare metal) that comes out of the 
ground and up to the meter, or to the conduit leading from the meter 
into the panel (more difficult because all that is accessible outside 
the building is a fitting with no flat service allowing for convenient 
clamping)? Or . . . ?

Also: I see no sign of a ground conductor from our recently installed 
DirecTV dish. I assume that this should have been grounded too?

Alan AB2OS


On 02/15/04 02:18 pm mcduffie at actcom.net put fingers to keyboard and 
launched the following message into cyberspace:

> That's why we insist on bonding the phone company (and power provider)
> grounds to ours before they come into the building.  Before doing that,
> we had lots of trouble with lightning coming in through those outside
> lines.  Bonding them to the station ground, which is much better than
> all of the others combined, almost eliminates lightning intrusion and
> losses.