"stryped" wrote in message
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I had a dish network sat dish and outside over the air tv antenna
mounted to a tower until a storm blew through recently and blew the
tower over. The person that installed the dish installed a coax
grounding block near the point of entrance of the coax into the house.
Both the over the air coax as well as the sat coax were connected to
this block. A ground wire ran from this block about 12 inches to a
power cut off box for my outside ac condenser. (Is this legal/proper?)

Anyway, I never had any problems out of the system. Years ago I had a
ground rod at the tower and had nothing but problems with lightening
strikes. When the person grounded it to the ac unit thus connecting it
to house ground, I never had a problem.

The sat was re installed near its original location except to the eave
of the house. I have been thinking of installing my new antenna and
rotor on my vinyl chimney. Currently the chimney is not used, I don't
even have gas logs although some day I might.

I guess my question is, can I install this set up on my chimney,
running my new coax down the side of the house to a new grounding coax
block, then running a ground wire from the coax block into the
crawlspace to a junction box that is already in the crawlspace? (Thus
grounding the coax to the house ground).

Also, I noticed that even before, the installer grounded my coax for
both the tv antenna and the sat dish but the masts for each were not
connected to any ground. Should they be?

I appreciate any advice.

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