Cold Water Faucet For Ground
 

I am the OP, and wanted to put some more details in. I am in Hobe
Sound, Fl, one mile from the ocean and our water table is very high.
I think that the pipes in the house are copper, but if I get a ground
rod, how long should it be? My radio is a tube boatanchor, fully
restored, HE-10 and my principle interest is listening to the BCB, as
it does great there, but some shortwave.
Thanks,
Bob
--

Cold Water Faucet For Ground
 

Loews or Home Depot sell eight foot long ground rods, I dont know how
much they cost though.If the water pipes are connected to plastic pipes
to your source of water, they wont work for grounding.
cuhulin

PONG : Telamon - "You give bad advice and you can't back it up. What a freaking retard."
 

In article
,
RHF wrote:

On Apr 19, 1:41*pm, Telamon
wrote:
In article
,





*RHF wrote:
On Apr 19, 12:13*pm, Telamon
wrote:
In article
,

*RHF wrote:
On Apr 18, 8:10*pm, "Count Floyd"
wrote:
I am the OP, and wanted to put some more details in. *I am in Hobe
Sound, Fl, one mile from the ocean and our water table is very
high. *
I think that the pipes in the house are copper, but if I get a
ground
rod, how long should it be? *My radio is a tube boatanchor, fully
restored, HE-10 and my principle interest is listening to the BCB,
as
it does great there, but some shortwave.
Thanks,
Bob
--

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point

CF / Bob,

READ : SWL -Newbies- The Ground Rod is First
and Formost for Electrical Safety and it can also
Help to Improve your Radio Reception.

- SNIP
-
- Never take technical advice from an idiot.

Telamon -recommends- *"Never take technical advice from an idiot."

Then Tealamon - Never Talk To Yourself ~ RHF

-ps- polluting another thread again
with your personal attacks on me.

Come up with a valid reason then retard. You can't do that can you.

-
- You give bad advice and you can't back it up. What a freaking
retard.
-
- --
- Telamon "The Chief Resident-in-Charge of Alt.Local.Village.Idiot"
- Ventura, California
-

PONG : Telamon - "You give bad advice and you can't back it up.
What a freaking retard."

Pong right back at ya retard. I don't see any technical backup of your
statements above so put a sock in it until you can do it. Retard.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.


or abuse from an alcoholic






mike

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

m II wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.


or abuse from an alcoholic

Om Shanti Om

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

m II wrote:

dxAce wrote:

m II wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.

or abuse from an alcoholic

Om Shanti Om

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln


So? The ninety nine percent asshole portion makes the point moot, you drunk.

And you, 100% dumbass Canuck!

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

On Apr 20, 9:43*am, dxAce wrote:
m II wrote:
Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.

or abuse from an alcoholic

Om Shanti Om

dxAce
Michigan
USA

- Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln

Nancy Hanks Lincoln*
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln81.html
* Mother of President Lincoln
* * The Legend of a Mountain Girl and her Baby
http://www.melungeons.com/articles/mar2005.htm
* * * Melungeon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
http://www.melungeons.com/
http://www.melungeon.org/
http://www.melungeons.com/articles/jan2003.htm

A Challenge to Abraham Lincoln's {Lily White} Ancestry
http://www.genealogytoday.com/us/lincoln/index.html
http://www.genealogytoday.com/us/lincoln/indpress.html
http://www.genealogytoday.com/us/lincoln/abepart3.html

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

RHF wrote:

- Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln

Nancy Hanks Lincoln*


Any record of her being raped by a braying jackass?





mike

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

m II wrote:

RHF wrote:

- Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln

Nancy Hanks Lincoln*

Any record of her being raped by a braying jackass?

Your momma?

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

In article 8lKOj.768$XI1.127@edtnps91, m II wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.


or abuse from an alcoholic

Then you should not be posting here.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

In article ,
dxAce wrote:

m II wrote:

dxAce wrote:

m II wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Never take technical advice from an idiot.

or abuse from an alcoholic

Om Shanti Om

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln


So? The ninety nine percent asshole portion makes the point moot, you drunk.

And you, 100% dumbass Canuck!

No, he is only 50% dumbass Canuck. The other 50% is Labatt's doing the
talking.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

In article oLMOj.841$XI1.821@edtnps91, m II wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Proud to be Miami and a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln

So? The ninety nine percent asshole portion makes the point moot, you
drunk.

And you, 100% dumbass Canuck!



You dropped something, drunk.....

SNIP

Being drunk and hung over is your problem so stop projecting.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:40:49 -0700 (PDT), RHF
wrote:

-IF- You can 'find' the Metal Cold Water Pipe that
is coming into the House : Usually Outside the
Foundation somewhere around the front ot side
of the House.

Hint - There is all ready a Ground Clamp attached there.

IIRC - This Water Service Pipe is usually 1 1/2" in Diameter

-IF- The Pipe is Plastic : It can NOT be used as a Ground.

-IF- The Pipe is Steel/Iron {Test with a Magnet} : It can be
used as a Ground. Clean the Outer Surface of the Pipe
with in a Few Inches of the Ground. Use a Brase Ground
Clamp around the Pipe

-IF- This Pipe is Copper -Caution- Use the Right Clamp.

You forgot one:

-IF- There is a thunderstorm and you have done this, run for the
hills, and pray that lightning doesn't strike a fire hydrant down the
street from you, so that you might actually have a home to return to
after the storm has passed.

Cold water pipes make poor grounds in most cases. Electrical service
joints also make poor grounds, and it's for the same reasons - the
leads are too long and the wire size is too small. That's before you
even begin to consider that the integrity of the ground connection is
often compromised by age, poor initial installation, corrosion,
dissimilar metal conversion, loose screws, etc.

Remember that whatever you use for a ground becomes part of the
antenna structure. Using a cold water pipe for a ground virtually
guarantees that you are going to suck in a ton of ground-level
radiation in the form of RF noise - and should you ever transmit on an
antenna that's grounded to a cold water pipe, you're certain to cause
interference to other services or neighbors.

The Phone Company ground at the network interface) is not a good
choice either. It may not even be attached to anything.

For what it's worth, the National Electrical Code NFPA 70-2002,
Section 250.130(C) does not permit the equipment grounding conductor
of a nongrounding receptacle or branch circuit extension to be
connected to a cold-water pipe, and prohibits using interior metal
water piping more than 5 feet from the point of entrance to a building
as part of the grounding electrode system. The use of water pipes as
an equipment grounding conductor also violates OSHA 1910.303(a), as
they are not listed for this purpose by nationally recognized testing
laboratories such as UL.

Don't screw around with shortcuts. Make the effort to construct a good
RF ground. in the long run, you'll be glad you did.

73 DE KC2HMZ

SWL -Newbies- Using a Cold Water Service Pipe For Grounding Point
 

On Apr 23, 3:51*am, John Kasupski wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:40:49 -0700 (PDT), RHF





wrote:
-IF- You can 'find' the Metal Cold Water Pipe that
is coming into the House : Usually Outside the
Foundation somewhere around the front ot side
of the House.

Hint - There is all ready a Ground Clamp attached there.

IIRC - This Water Service Pipe is usually 1 1/2" in Diameter

-IF- The Pipe is Plastic : It can NOT be used as a Ground.

-IF- The Pipe is Steel/Iron {Test with a Magnet} : It can be
used as a Ground. *Clean the Outer Surface of the Pipe
with in a Few Inches of the Ground. Use a Brase Ground
Clamp around the Pipe

-IF- This Pipe is Copper -Caution- Use the Right Clamp.

You forgot one:

-IF- There is a thunderstorm and you have done this, run for the
hills, and pray that lightning doesn't strike a fire hydrant down the
street from you, so that you might actually have a home to return to
after the storm has passed.

Cold water pipes make poor grounds in most cases. Electrical service
joints also make poor grounds, and it's for the same reasons - the
leads are too long and the wire size is too small. That's before you
even begin to consider that the integrity of the ground connection is
often compromised by age, poor initial installation, corrosion,
dissimilar metal conversion, loose screws, etc.

Remember that whatever you use for a ground becomes part of the
antenna structure. Using a cold water pipe for a ground virtually
guarantees that you are going to suck in a ton of ground-level
radiation in the form of RF noise - and should you ever transmit on an
antenna that's grounded to a cold water pipe, you're certain to cause
interference to other services or neighbors.

The Phone Company ground at the network interface) is not a good
choice either. It may not even be attached to anything.

For what it's worth, the National Electrical Code NFPA 70-2002,
Section 250.130(C) does not permit the equipment grounding conductor
of a nongrounding receptacle or branch circuit extension to be
connected to a cold-water pipe, and prohibits using interior metal
water piping more than 5 feet from the point of entrance to a building
as part of the grounding electrode system. The use of water pipes as
an equipment grounding conductor also violates OSHA 1910.303(a), as
they are not listed for this purpose by nationally recognized testing
laboratories such as UL.

Don't screw around with shortcuts. Make the effort to construct a good
RF ground. in the long run, you'll be glad you did.

73 DE KC2HMZ- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

JK - Good Advise ~ RHF

It is best not to Think of the Antenna and the Ground as two
separate things -but- as the Antenna-&-Ground System.

A Chain of Items forming a Complete Low Resistance Path
-from- Antenna-in-the-Air -to- Ground-Rod-in-the-Ground.

The Eight Foot Copper-Clad Steel Ground Rod is not
the last Link in the System : The Ground {Soil} itself is.

The amount of Surface Area and it's Effectiveness
between the Ground Rod and the Ground {Soil} is
every bit as important as the Size (Length Thicknees)
of the Ground Wire-Strap.