[TowerTalk] Shack ground

[Pete Smith]

See the latest QST for an interesting article by Jim, N3JT.  Experts on 
this list will probably weigh in, but the new thing I found was his 
bonding of the electrical outlet grounds in his shack to the shack's 
single point ground.  This is presumably intended to prevent the shack 
ground from rising too far above real ground in the event of a nearby 
lightning strike.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 6/16/2010 3:15 PM, w4lde wrote:
> This maybe the wrong place to ask so excuse me for the bandwidth but:
>
> I have several ground posts just outside of the home connected together
> and then also tied to the house electrical panel ground system.
>
> Just inside the house and in the basement is a connector panel for coax
> and rotor lines also tied to the ground system.  From that system I have
> a #6
> run to the 2nd floor shack antenna tuner, about 25ft.
>
> All of my grounds terminate in the shack to the back of the antenna
> tuner used with a 80M zepp however, all of the equipment sits on a large
> metal desk which is also tied to the tuner ground point.
>
> Question:  Would I better off using the desk as a single point to
> connect all of the ground straps from the rigs and other devices
> including the Tuner and Ham PC, I have no RFI in the shack and it maybe
> a waste of time but I thought I get opinions?
>
> 73 de
> Ron W4LDE
>
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