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"Antenna grounding
I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to
ground them? DO they need grounding? |
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What kind of antennas?
-- 73 Hank WD5JFR wrote in message oups.com... I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to ground them? DO they need grounding? |
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Henry Kolesnik wrote: What kind of antennas? -- 73 Hank WD5JFR wrote in message oups.com... I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to ground them? DO they need grounding? I have yet to build them but I was thinking a j pole or ground plane on top of a short section of mast and a 440 yagi toward the bottom of the mast. The mast would be attached to my chimney. |
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Many years ago, I was working on TV antenna installations, and use to sell
the parts for them. We did a fair number of communications antenna installations, and a few armature radio antennas as well. For safety sakes you definitely need a good ground. You should ground the mast of the antenna. The ground will reduce the effect that a near by lightning strike can have on damaging your home. Every year there are fires from antennas being struck by lightning. You must use a proper electrical ground for the antenna. You can use the same ground as the electrical entry to your home is using. For the wire gauge, a gauge AWG 12 is very standard for this type of thing. Many of the antenna installers are using a metal ground strapping that is standard for TV antenna installations. If you want the best, copper wire would be a good choice. Just make sure that the wire is properly screw-clamped on to the antenna mast. On the large antenna installations we used to use 2 ground runs from the mast. It was doubled up. You should also look in to safety ground decoulper for your line feed going to the receiver. If there is a strike to the antenna that may damage the front end via the signal cable, this type of protection adds to the chance of saving the receiver from having damage. The antenna, ground wire, and lead-ins, should be inspected at least once a year, in case any repairs are required. It is most important that the safety ground is intact. The Armature Radio Handbook, and the ARRL Antenna Handbook, should have a lot of very good information about antenna installations. -- Jerry G. ====== wrote in message oups.com... I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to ground them? DO they need grounding? |
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wrote in message oups.com... I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to ground them? DO they need grounding? Yes, as they could be hit with lightning. |
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Charles Schuler wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... I am installing two ham antennas on my chimney. What is the best way to ground them? DO they need grounding? Yes, as they could be hit with lightning. ....another question from a ham who should--IMHO--already know the answer. What's up with that? In any case, despite the inexact wording of the OP, yes the MAST--not the antenna itself--should indeed be grounded. I make the distinction because this is the kind of question which would be covered in any elementary radio text (which I presumed one should have already studied in order to 'become' a ham). jak |
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