On Apr 18, 6:14*am, "Michael" wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message

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Michael wrote:
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Hiya...

Hiya...

Got the 6' solid brass ground rod and 24' ground strap today from ICE.
We have clear weather forecast here for Saturday, so I plan to pound it
into the ground. *I'll mount the balun to the foundation low to the
ground and connect the ground strap. *I ordered 100' spool of antenna
wire and a 100' length of coax. *If they arrive in the next day, I'll be
able to put it up Saturday along with the balun and ground spike. *Then I
can test it out Saturday night. *If I don't get the antenna wire and
other goodies by the weekend, it will have to wait another week for
completion and testing. * I'm glad I also have the 102' G5RV to test it
against. *That antenna is currently laying on myroofin the shape of a
sigma. *I plan to leave it as is.

I'd say the 6' brass rod into the earth is a better ground then the brick
chimney, but I don't think it will out perform the whole uncooked
chicken.

I'm still not sure if I should also ground the radio in the shack. *The
radio is on the second floor in the house, so any ground wire would have
to be about *75' long to reach the spike, unless I just ground it to the
iron radiator... or a chicken. *I use a six receiver, six radio MFJ-
1700C switch to go between antennas and my two radios. *The new properly
grounded inverted L will always be hooked up to the switch along with
both my radios and all antennas. *Given that one antenna is well grounded
and all items are hooked up to the same switch via shielded PL-259, will
the other radios and antennas benefit from that one single grounded
antenna ???

Forgive me for being a total retard here... My first ever antenna was a
roll of aluminum foil and an alligator clip :-) I'm making some
progress...

Mike D
Ground the switch.

To what ??? Given that the switch will already be connected to the PL-259
connection of the well grounded sloping L antenna's shielded coax, hooking
up another wire to the switch from the outside ground rod will be redundant,
no ??? *The best I can do is put a ground strap from the switch to an iron
radiator in the shack.

Think that will be any help ???

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Michael,

Install a 'separate' 8-foot Copper-Clad Steel Ground Rod very
close to your Radio Shack for your Radio Shack's Ground.
Use a very Heavy AWG Wire from the Ground Rod to your
Radios and Receivers.

iane ~ RHF