YES another grounding question

[SCPD]

I have one 6ft piece of copper pipe being used as a grounding round about 2 feet from my window and about 5 1/2 feet in the ground. Is it ok to "home run" all my grounding wires to this one grounding rod with a left over cable company grounding clamp.

This is what i have connected to my grounding rod

My antenna block
My 9:1 Balun
My ground terminal on my radio

The grounding wire is as short as i can make it using insulated heavy duty braided copper wire.

Thank you
Mike

 

[ridgescan]

Here's a great link for ya Mike
Grounding -- antenna special on hard-core-dx.com
my personal opinion is to ground to an outside waterpipe going into the ground if you can.

 

[SCPD]

Thank you for the link. Im reading up on it now.

 

[davidgcet]

unless you also bond this rod back to your electrical ground point(not just a branch but the main point) you are just risking worse problems. you can get ground loops which cause annoying hum, or worse yet the difference in ground potential will invite lightning to pass thru your equipment or even cause a fire due to ground conductors carrying voltage(very rare but not unheard of). am i trying to scare you, no i am just trying to stress that improper grounding is worse than no ground at all. you don't have to spend 10k on grounding your home setup, but you need to have it done right.

if you want to knwo the PROPER way to do a comms site see http://motorola.wirelessbroadbandsu...ublic.php?id=74b2448282a9e5290e79ce7bbba93fad now there is no way i would follow the whole thing for a house, but make sure to at least try to copy the main part about MGB/SGB and bonding.

 

[neondesert]

Here is a Popular Communications article from May 2009 you might find useful in your research:

lightning protection-taming thors thunder-on a budget

 

[SCPD]

Thank you both for the links, Im going to read them tonight