Tom,

Mount the lightning arrestor directly on top of the ground rod.

Run a ground cable # 4 or larger from same ground rod in to the shack and 
connect it to a Brass or copper bar with screws spaced along its length for 
equipment grounds.  You can either make this or purchase similar from 
various ham radio stores.  From these screws, run a ground wire to each 
piece of equipment in your station.  Do not, I repeat, do not daisy chain 
your ground from one piece of equipment to another.

 Hope this helps.

73's

Howard #3, W A 9 Y B W


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: grounding question


> The pole is about three feet from my window and the grounding rod is about 
> a
> foot from the pole moving toard the window.  Everything's just about on 
> top of
> each other with the space I've got.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Gerry Leary wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:32:58 -0600
>> From: Gerry Leary <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: grounding question
>>
>> Do you get to put the pole in the ground?  Maybe you could incorporate a 
>> rod
>> there so that no one would know or see it.  Then maybe you could put your 
>> 9
>> foot rod near the building.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:44 PM
>> Subject: grounding question
>>
>>
>> > I'm living in an apartment where they've agreed to let me put up an
>> > antenna on a
>> > 14ft pole but they only want me to have a single grounding point for my
>> > system.
>> > I have a 9ft ground rod but I need both an rf ground to the radio 
>> > itself
>> > and a
>> > ground for my lightning arrester on the antenna.  Is there any way to
>> > ground
>> > these both to a single ground rod?
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
>> > Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> > web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>