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Jim Yanik

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On 21 Nov 2007 17:08:03 GMT, Jim Yanik wrote:

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Not necessarily.
Uninformed homeowners might not know to ground the mast/boom/antenna
mount,or figure they can get by without it.

Grounding just the mast would automatically ground the whole
system regardless of a home owners understanding of the system.
Why? Because the boom, mount, coax outer shield, and mast
are all electrically the same. Grounding the mast as I stated,
would automatically ground everything. It's dummy proof.

my POINT was that they might not ground ANYTHING.
Just connect their coax and consider it done.

I believe I get your point now.

I mentioned that a Yagi by design is DC grounded. What I meant by
that is the component parts of the antenna assembly are electrically
connected to each other as far as DC is concerned.

I know how Yagis are constructed,I have an ARRL Handbook,I've BUILT Yagis.

You assumed that
that might be taken as the end all to a grounding procedure.

I said nothing of the sort;that is what you read into what I posted.

It is
not. You must also run a ground wire.

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Jim Yanik
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