a wire from a lightning arrester to an outlet in the house? are you trying 
to get him killed? even with the ground rod, if that takes a direct hit, 
it's going to go in the house, wipe out the whole electrical system and most 
connected to it and burn the place down at best. I've said it before and 
I'll say it again, you never take a lightning ground inside the house. Keep 
the lightning outside, you'll live longer.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Yearns" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: grounding question


> Is the 14 foot pole on the roof or ground?  The National Electric Code 
> calls
> for all metal poles pipe systems, , antenna masts to be grounded and 
> bonded
> together to the main electrical grounding electrode. Gas piping is 
> excluded.
> In your case I would envision a coax coming down the exterior wall being
> attached to a lightening arrester outside your window, then the coax would
> feed into the house and radio via the window.  I would sink the 9 foot rod
> directly under the arrester and attach the two together with a number 
> eight
> or six wire if possible.and also run a wire from the arrester into the 
> house
> and fasten it to the cover screw of the closest grounded outlet.  that 
> bonds
> it to the electrical  system.  The coax will be grounded to the antenna 
> mast
> if it is on the roof and fastened to it.  .  If notfastened to the mast 
> but
> using a standoff insulator  then a separate wire can ground the mast and
> follow with the coax down to the lightenen in arrester.
> Ron
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:44 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