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Looking at the original post I don't see a reason given for the need to ground in the basement. The antenna and/or lead in should be grounded outside to NEC code before entering the house. Its nice to ground all your amateur transceivers, amplifiers and antenna couplers together with a single point ground for RFI issues but for modern scanners there is no need to ground them beyond the three prong AC power plug if it has one.
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the more I study about grounding the less I understand, I was at a hams house the other day, he has several wires antennas, all hung from trees, also has a mast with a 2 meter antenna on top, then an elbow off that with what looks like some kind of ladder antenna hanging off that, I didnt see any type of grounding off the mast, also has a 220 and 10 meter antenna installed on the roof, once again , no ground, at the front of the house he has a large copper pipe buried in the ground, this comes up throught the basement and into the room where his shack is, there he has all his equipment grounded to this copper.........now Ive heard that one needs at least 1 8ft ground rod attached to an antenna mast for minimal ground, I truelly dont understand how one grounds an antenna mast to the service entrance on a breaker box. please someone in lamens terms explain this, Ive looked on the wiki and Ive seen no examples of how this is done
 
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