Grounding Hf Radio On Second Floor

Providing good grounding for both ac and dc power as well as for the radio signals is very important for a trouble free ham radio shack.

Grounding hf radio on second floor.

The orange and yellow wires are the power line feeds to the radio room. Rf in the ham shack. I have no grounds running down my 3rd floor condo but i do have solid point to point grounding systems for two consoles of radio and computer gear. Grounding a radio in a 2nd floor apartment i have an icom ic 7300 that has a ground terminal on the back.

If you look at the lower right corner you can see the wide ground straps that are being installed to form a closed screen or grid below the radio room s floor. His grounding system looked like the setup shown fig. It is commonly assumed rf in the shack interference to consumer devices like telephones or stereos or even rf feedback or rf burns result from poor operating position equipment grounding. Radio guy wrote i m taking about grounding my equipment to avoid hf burns as explained in my original post.

This ham had his shack installed on the second floor of the house. The question is how to run my radio ground wire for my equipment to the house electrical ground stake while avoiding a resonant length due to the distance i am away from the ground rod being on the 2nd floor. Do not depend on your house power wiring grounding pin points as they are often loosely connected corroded or simply not on the same common grounding points. This strap is part of the grid of wires that establish a ground below the floor.

Stray rf suppression or simply rf grounding 3. Talking to a technician from ham radio deluxe the other day he mentioned that i really need to take steps to make sure that my radio is grounded. The first thing to know is that there are three functions served by grounding in ham shacks. After antennas station grounding is probably the most discussed subject in amateur radio and it is also the one replete with the most misconceptions.