[TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?

[Perry - K4PWO]

The original poster was talking about tying into the ground bus at his house 
panel.  I believe that is a BAD idea.  You don't want to create the 
possibility of dumping lighting current from an antenna/tower strike into 
your homes panel raising the house electrical ground to potentially high 
voltages.  The better course is to run the stations ground OUTSIDE to the 
electrical ground rod which has been enhanced to be a perimeter (ground rods 
at each corner of the house interconnected by large gauge copper wire) 
ground system.

73 de Perry - K4PWO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt at arrl.net>
To: "'TowerTalk'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 16:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?


> Except he said plural 'rods'.  Now maybe the house entrance ground isn't 
> the
> best, but it's the right place to go rather than his stated alternative of 
> a
> separate ground.
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Maser [mailto:bmaser at tampabay.rr.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 21:18
>> To: k1ttt at arrl.net; 'TowerTalk'
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?
>>
>> I don't think that using the electric company ground is a very good idea.
>> It is usually just a single ground rod that they pound into the ground
>> near
>> the electric box.
>>
>> Bob W6TR
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt at arrl.net>
>> To: "'TowerTalk'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?
>>
>>
>> That is exactly the right thing to do.
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Gary Slagel [mailto:gdslagel at yahoo.com]
>> > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 20:48
>> > To: TowerTalk
>> > Subject: [TowerTalk] House entrance ground for RF ground?
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > My shack is on the first floor of the house and right above the
>> electrical
>> > service entrance in the basement. For my station RF and DC ground, I'm
>> > thinking I'll run a 10' wire from the station down to the electrical
>> > entrance ground wire which, of course, runs right out to ground rods
>> > outside the house. Is there any problem with this or should I be 
>> > running
>> > to a separate ground rod?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any opinions!
>> >
>> > Gary Slagel/N0SXX
>> > Hot Springs, SD
>> > http://marina.fortunecity.com/sanpedro/351
>> >
>> >
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