I recently upgraded to General and my son is studying for his General now. We got a used Icom 735 HF radio and will be putting up a multi band dipole at the top of a pole in an inverted V configuration.
The shack is just inside the house near the electrical service delivery point, so that's not a problem to ground our radio and antenna tuner to the SDP grounding rod. The problem we have is the location of the dipole. The electrical SDP and ground rod is on the side of the house. The mast mounting the dipole has to go in the back near the house, just to have the dipole enclosed within the fenced in back yard and to have enough room for an HF dipole. The mast would be about 35 feet from the existing ground rod, around the corner of the house.
Since I can't mount the mast near the SDP, what I was planning on doing is to put another ground rod by the mast to ground the mast, coax, and lightning arrester, then another ground rod half way to the SDP since its over 20 feet and run heavy AWG ground wire to bound the new ground rods and the exist ground rod for the SDP.
How does this sound? Is there anything i'm missing?
The shack is just inside the house near the electrical service delivery point, so that's not a problem to ground our radio and antenna tuner to the SDP grounding rod. The problem we have is the location of the dipole. The electrical SDP and ground rod is on the side of the house. The mast mounting the dipole has to go in the back near the house, just to have the dipole enclosed within the fenced in back yard and to have enough room for an HF dipole. The mast would be about 35 feet from the existing ground rod, around the corner of the house.
Since I can't mount the mast near the SDP, what I was planning on doing is to put another ground rod by the mast to ground the mast, coax, and lightning arrester, then another ground rod half way to the SDP since its over 20 feet and run heavy AWG ground wire to bound the new ground rods and the exist ground rod for the SDP.
How does this sound? Is there anything i'm missing?