[HCDX]: Re: Grounding!

[jerry.monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello Alf and others,

There has been some great input on good grounding and a few comments are in
order.

One thing though I have not seen mentioned, is to utilize you local
topography to its best advantage, by this I mean if you have water well
which is basically a big metal pipe in the ground sometimes 200 feet or
more, by all means use that.
Also, if on your property you have a low lying wet spot maybe a swamp, put
your ground there. Driving 100 10 foot ground rods and burying mesh screen
in a sand dune does not do much, but a single ground rod into the edge of
pond or small lake will go a long ways for creating superior RF ground
performance.

Secondly, safety. Creating a good ground can be quite shocking , especially
when connection is made to your house powering ground. Realize the ground
rods driven for the powering grid were probably done fifty years ago or and
may be non existent or seriously degraded.
Serious voltage potential could exist, exercise caution.

And thirdly, lightning and static protection. Now that you have created a
tremendous ground realize that lightning prefers to take the shortest and
least resistance path, you may created the best local ground for mother
nature. So if you do choose to bond this enhanced ground to the local power
grid , all those other long wire antennas out there commonly known as "the
power lines" may find there way to discharge themselves when struck, via
your backyard ground.
To alleviate this to some degree I would highly recommend transformer
coupling your antenna/super ground to your receiver. There was some
excellent postings on this topic in HCDX list just recently.

Good luck keep us all posted,

Jerry KC2UT
Syracuse, New York




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