Antenna grounding.
 

If someone could clarify (Excuse the pun) this for me i'd appreciate it.

I bought this antenna to use on my AOR 8600
http://www.scannermaster.com/store/13-540457.html
It's a lot better than my old discone and beats the Scantenna on 50/145/440,
I mainly bought it for its advertised 500KHz-1500MHz bandwidth and it's a
truly great antenna.
The thing I'm confused about is grounding, I have it on a 30ft pole outside
my apartment in a 6ft concrete base, the soil is mostly clay. If I run a
heavy gauge braid from the top of the pole where it attaches to the antenna
into a copper groundstake would it reduce my noise level on HF? It's also
impractical to drive a 6ft stake into the ground however there is a
grounding point 6ft away.

Thanks for any help, if anyone's looking at buying a wideband antenna I'd
definitely recommend this one.

You want to ground the receiver, not the antenna. And it would help reduce
the noise a bit, and increase the signal strength of the received signals.

If you had a longwire antenna or if you live in thunderstorm country, there
are devices to help remove static from the antenna before it reaches the
receiver, and devices for shunting lightening to the ground. But the antenna
should not be grounded.

hello
how do you ground the reciever?

"S-Meter" wrote in message
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| You want to ground the receiver, not the antenna. And it would help reduce
| the noise a bit, and increase the signal strength of the received signals.
|
| If you had a longwire antenna or if you live in thunderstorm country,
there
| are devices to help remove static from the antenna before it reaches the
| receiver, and devices for shunting lightening to the ground. But the
antenna
| should not be grounded.
|
|

it's not grounded, theres no ground screw and it runs off DC.

"harvey" wrote in message
...
hello
how do you ground the reciever?

"S-Meter" wrote in message
ink.net...
| You want to ground the receiver, not the antenna. And it would help
reduce
| the noise a bit, and increase the signal strength of the received
signals.
|
| If you had a longwire antenna or if you live in thunderstorm country,
there
| are devices to help remove static from the antenna before it reaches the
| receiver, and devices for shunting lightening to the ground. But the
antenna
| should not be grounded.
|
|

ground the chassis , to a ground rod driven in the ground.
This will also take care of grounding the coax shield, if you use coax. In
the case of a long wire, the ground is a mandatory item, if you want the
antenna to work right.

"harvey" wrote in message
...
hello
how do you ground the reciever?

"S-Meter" wrote in message
ink.net...
| You want to ground the receiver, not the antenna. And it would help
reduce
| the noise a bit, and increase the signal strength of the received
signals.
|
| If you had a longwire antenna or if you live in thunderstorm country,
there
| are devices to help remove static from the antenna before it reaches the
| receiver, and devices for shunting lightening to the ground. But the
antenna
| should not be grounded.
|
|