[TowerTalk] station grounding question

[Jim Brown]

Two suggestions. Both require study.

1) Buy and study N0AX's new ARRL book on Grounding and Bonding.
and/or
2) download and study the slides for my tutorial slide show on the topic.
http://k9yc.com/GroundingAndAudio.pdf

73, Jim K9YC

On 10/12/2018 4:11 PM, Gary Slagel via TowerTalk wrote:
> I put my shack together several years ago and today was reviewing my grounding system hoping that I could find a magic trick that might quiet some of my noise on 80 and 160.
> I've got a decent grounding bus on the back of my desk with a #6 copper wire running about 8' through the floor to the electrical grounding wire that runs from the electrical panel about 6' outside to ground rods.  I could also or instead run my grounding wire to a copper cold water pipe that runs about 75' before it leaves the house.
> Am I better off leaving it as is, grounded to the electrical ground?  Or would the cold water pipe be better?