Thank youSteve and others.  The coax as a ground wire sounds like a great
idea.  I have some questions for clarification.

If I understand correctly you are saying to solder a .001 MFD capacitor
between the center conductor and the shield at each end of my length of
coax.  Once this is done I would then connect the center conductor to the
ground on my rig and the other end to my ground rod.  

1:  What kind of coax would be good to use?  I don't anticipate running over
100W.

2:  For other equipment in my shack should I connect those ground wires to
the center conductor near the connection to my rig?  
I understand that I should connect all of the ground wires for equipment in
my shack to a common point and then connect to the ground wire going out to
the ground rod.  .  
I want to avoid creating any ground loops.

Kent Plemmons near Clyde, NC
Skype: kent.plemmons
K j plemmons at g mail .com



-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 7:56 PM
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Subject: Re: rf ground, how long is too long?

That should work, but I'd suggest an old trick we use to use.  Use coax
cable for your ground wire, that is the center conductor.  Bypass the center
to the shield on each end with a .001 cap.  This shields the ground and
prevents it from acting like an antenna.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Sun, 11 Aug 2013,
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> I would like to put my hf rig in a room on the main floor of our house 
> (not a second story) but it would require running my rf ground about 
> 18' to an earth ground.  This room is heated in the winter and is 
> comfortable.  The other option I have is to put it in the basement 
> which is not completely underground and would take some amount of 
> modification to make comfortable in cold weather but I would only need 
> to run my rf ground about 6' to an earth ground.  I could relocate 
> computer if necessary.  I don't want to get all set up with antenna 
> cabling etc. just to find out that I should have put everything in the 
> basement where there is a shorter ground.  Any of you have similar
problem?  Where would you locate?
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> Skype: kent.plemmons
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