![]() With an unbalanced antenna,say a multi-band vertical or zeppelin, your RF needs a place to go and a counterpoise wire of 17 or 34 or 70m feet attached to the ground lug of the radio or tuner should give RF a path and eliminate RF interference to most devices in home and provide better effectiveness of your antenna.I can suggest better when I know more about your station as a long path to ground does little to protect from lightening.Īnd before someone says that Ham radio must kave a ground.explain how you ground a mobile station. and you really can't defend enough to eliminate problems then.just minimise damage. With a balanced antenna like a dipole or inverted "V" (balanced as in both sides match in length) you don't need a ground for RF and often the third wird on the cord for the power supply is adequate for lightening ,until you get a direct hit. I just want to make sure that I don't get a shock when I touch the chassis.I need more detail,like what kind of antenna and power supply etc,but in general ,there are TWO KINDS OF GROUND.Lightening and RF ground. Unless it is directly connected, I am not (right now) interested in how to ground an antenna. The building is old, but there is plenty of plastic pipes.Īgain, I am just interested in safety ground. I have not completely determined that this isn't possible, but I doubt that it is. One option that I have come across is grounding to a metal (cobber) water pipe. My question is: how to you get a safety ground on an HF transceiver if you live in apartment? The conventional wisdom would say that you need a 6-8 ft ground rod in the ground, but this is not possible for many people in apartments. When I google "how to ground transceiver in apartment" I find a lot discussing antenna and lighting ground, but I find very little directly about safety ground. But for these last two grounds, it seems that there are some good options. There is also the grounding of antenna and lighting protection. From what I understand the safety ground is the ground that you would connect to the grounding terminal on the transceiver. I am very concerned about the safety ground. I understand that there are basically three types of grounding: (1) safety ground, (2) RF grounding, (3) lighting ground. I am in an apartment so I can't use a ground rod for grounding. I just got my general license and naturally I would like an HF transceiver. ![]()
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