[TowerTalk] station grounding question

[Steve Lott]

I strongly recommend that you do both 1 &. 2 of what Jim K9YC said

Steve
KG5VK

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:46 PM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
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