You're putting a lightning arrester in the shack? or outside? an inline 
lightning arrester should always be outside and I sure wouldn't ground it to 
the same ground as the radio unless you want lightning coming back in the 
radio's RF ground and frying the radio that way. I've heard of that 
happening many times I'd disconnect the RF ground in a lightning storm 
either way. Maybe I'[m misunderstanding but lightning protection grounding, 
like antennas and lightning arresters should never be inside, the radio's 
ground is only RF grounding, I wouldn't combine the 2.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:24 PM
Subject: grounding question


> I'm just setting up my ts2000 after being off the air for the past year. 
> I've a
> breakout box for cables and such.  I'll run a ground wire through the box 
> out to
> an 8ft grounding rod.  My question is this -- I have one of those gas 
> lightning
> arresters.  It will attach to the breakout box and the antenna cable will 
> attach
> to it.  It is to be grounded.  When I ground it is there any good reason 
> that it
> should have a ground separate from the radio or can they both be grounded 
> to the
> same ground rod?
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html