Ham Radio Grounding Second Floor

Since your future ham shack will be located on the second floor of the structure then here s what i will discuss and recommend.

Ham radio grounding second floor.

Most grounding systems implemented in commercial two way radio installations is used to prevent major lightning damage to the radio equipment if the antennas. What type of a ground system are you attempting to build. Stray rf suppression or simply rf grounding 3. Radio guy wrote i m taking about grounding my equipment to avoid hf burns as explained in my original post.

After antennas station grounding is probably the most discussed subject in amateur radio and it is also the one replete with the most misconceptions. 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. If one has an artificial ground box and the wire to ground is 1 4wl neutralizing the reactance will not help as the rf resistance is sky high. This strap is part of the grid of wires that establish a ground below the floor.

His grounding system looked like the setup shown fig. If a ground wire is run from the second story to earth ground it needs to be a multiple of 1 2wl but like the 1 4wl counterpoise it will radiate just like an antenna element. You have to deal with both situations. The first thing to know is that there are three functions served by grounding in ham shacks.

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 single heavy ground wire was quite long and extended diagonally to reach the ground rod that was 30 feet down to the far outside corner of the ground floor. 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. Grounding a radio in a 2nd floor apartment i have an icom ic 7300 that has a ground terminal on the back.

Although proper power grounding is fairly straightforward for ac and dc power grounding for the radio signals in a ham station is a different problem altogether.