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Paleface
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 6:16 pm: | 
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I run a A99 with the KIT and my pole starts on the first eve of my house with a pole boot. Then again clamps to the second eve of my house and with three guide wires helping support it and in total 75' above the ground to the top of the pole. Now my pole never touches the ground, but I do have a copper ground wire running from the bottom of the pole and along the eve of the house to my ground on the electrical box. As well I have a 10' 1/2" diameter copper rod drove into the ground out side my room with a copper wire I stripped from a spool of electrical house wire I bought when re wiring the house going to the TVI filter that my radio feeds into after the watt meter. My SWR's are running around a 1.1, so not bad. Here's the funny deal, ever slide your arm against a radio just to have it feel like it's pulling hairs with it's light shocks? Question is, is this a good enough ground or should I have grounded the base of the A99 as well and why is the radio nipping at me after all that grounding? I'm fixing to change out to a PDL II beam and thought about insuring a good ground so I want to insure it's done right the first time!
Paleface unit #105 SW Oklahoma |
Einstein_667
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 7:55 pm: |
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Connect Ground Wires From the Chasis of all equipment in your shack to that ground rod going outside your window. That should solve your problems. Also using more groundwires connect that ground rod outside your window to the ac ground on your fuse box and telephone line. That will make it even better. As for putting the ground wire at the bottom of the pole, that should not matter much as long as the pole is aluminum. |
Taz
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 11:12 pm: |
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NO GROUND WIRES OVER 8 FEET!!!!!!!!
OR THEY WILL RADIATE |
Einstein_667
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 11:00 am: |
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You only have to worry about the length of the ground wires going grom the chasis of your equipment to the outside ground rod and not the antenna or ac grounds. Also you are supposed to keep the number below 9 ft not 8 ft but again this is only for the rf ground on the shack equipment. |
Taz
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 9:29 pm: |
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thats what i ment einstein.
you cant have ground rods over 10 feet!
my local power company told me that, i figured i would take their word for it |
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