[TowerTalk] Shack ground

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 18 17:43:18 PDT 2010


Mark Spencer wrote:
> I concur, personally I'm satisfied with a continous piece where possible (ie. one piece of wire is run thru the various lugs as opposed to being spliced) of number 3 copper wire run outside the house.   When I see ham shacks with separate low impedance RF grounds I can't help but think about what might happen if there was a serious ground fault and the only bond between the home electrical system ground and the low impedance RF ground was via a ground wire in a piece of 14/2 romex that ran thru the house to the electrical outlet that powers the ham gear.  
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> 

Yep..

Mechanically secure, continuously connected..


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