Another one who doesn't know the difference in an RF ground and a lightning 
ground and the 2 should never interact any more than is absolutely needed. 
Tying them together is inviting the loss of equipment at best.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: grounding question


> 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
>>>