At my station here in Frostburg, my antennas are grounded in one place and 
my station has its own 8-foot ground rod.  73- pat kk3f
It's preferable to have separate grounds to minimize the possibility of a 
ground loop.

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From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:24 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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
>