Hi

The feedline is the cable coax, there is no balun or tuner inline I would
imagine. Just the simple satelite dish with dual LNB and it receives from
two different satelites.

So it is in my best interests, best viewing interests, best protection of
the new TV to ground out the satelite dish, its arm, its base to the tower
and that in turn will ground out into the ground obviously.

Simple copper connection between tower and satellite. Easily done.

Thanks for the advice.






"Kenneth Scharf" wrote in message
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On 09/25/2011 10:03 AM, Tuuk wrote:
Hi,
I have a big self supporting tower in the yard, it is grounded by
grounding
rods and of course itself. I am attaching two satelite dishes to the
tower.
The most practical way is using 2x4 wood, this will work great just
screwing
them to the wood and it will squeeze itself to the brackets and support
nicely. I am wondering about the connection to the tower because there
will
not be grounded to the tower. There wont be any connection (metal to
metal)
form the satelite dish and the tower, that leads me to believe that the
only
grounding would be the shielded cable which gets grounded to the nice new
50" plazma.

My question is should i ground that? Should the satelite dish itself be
grounded to the tower? Is there any reason for this? Safety wise or
interference wise? It would be very simple to do, but not sure if I
should
or want to. Please give me advice as to either ground the dish to tower
or
not to. Does anyone think there will be issues? Should I or shouldn't I?

Thanks for any advice.


If the feedline is unbalanced then at some point it should be grounded to
avoid "static" noise. The antenna should be connected to ground though a
lightning arrester for safety.