RF grounding and electrical grounding are 100% different things. RF ground 
should be as short as possible and go straight to a grounding rod, if you 
want to have one. A lot of people get away without an RF ground with no 
problem what so ever, I know I have. I have one here because I live in a 
trailer and I just connected it to the frame of the trailer but I'm not sure 
you'd want to tie the RF ground in to the electrical ground especially using 
the third prong on the plug because certainly that will end up using all the 
wiring in the house for an antenna if you find a band it's resonant on. I 
learned that lesson when I lived with my parents and that's when I learned 
in that case no RF ground at all was better than that and I was on the 
second floor with basement at ground level so third floor height, no way in 
the world I could get a decent RF ground up there and where I had no 
problems with out one and know many others who even run serious power, as I 
did at one time with out one with no problem, I just never bothered.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:10 PM
Subject: Re-station ground


> So if I have a ground wire running from my ATU's ground stud to the back 
> of
> the rig's ground stud, considering my rig has a built in power supply and 
> a
> 3 prong plug, this will be fine?
>
> Mike