Rob

I live south of Tampa at an elevation of 12 feet and 300 yards from the
Gulf. I used the method described in the web page
that Mike posted. I "hydraulically" sunk a 1/2" copper water pipe to a depth
of 14+ feet right at the base of my antenna pole.
I bought two 10 feet pieces and when the first piece was as deep as it would
go, I soldered the second piece on and went as deep as I could push it.
I then cut it off about 6 inches above the ground and soldered bare solid
copper wire (gauge? fattest home depot had) between
the ground rod and antenna mast.
I did not weather protect this soldered connection as the article suggested.
(I may redo it at some point and then weather protect it).

I've been thinking about adding a coaxial surge protector to my receivers
feed line such as this one:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...tect/1305.html

I plan to add a second ground for connection to the back of my radio (an
Icom PCR 1000, which has
a ground screw)

If your extremely concerned about lighting coming in the feed line, I
suppose you could
solder a bnc connector to a copper conductor that is connected to a ground
rod. That way
when you disconnect the feed line from the radio you could store it by
connecting it to this ground.

I don't understand grounding all that well, just that for safety it needs
to be done.





"mike" wrote in message
...
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/2775/gndsys.html

mike

"Rob Gibson" wrote in message
...
I'm new to scanning and am interested in using a Discone type antenna I
bought on Ebay. I'm going to be feeding my Yeasu VR-500 handheld scanner
with it. I live in Central Florida (Lightning Capital of the World, or
so
it seems) and need info about isolating (grounding) the antenna. I am
very
concerned about lightning entering my home via the antenna feed.

Can someone give me a URL for info about using (and isolating) antennas,
or
a good book title that I can buy? TIA.

Rob
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