Grounding HOW-TO The complete Grounding HOW-TO in Text format. A sample 'Real-life' Grounding System. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 RF-Grounding The first step to proper grounding of your radio is the RF-Grounding. RF-Grounding procedure Always connect your radio equipment / power supply to a grounded wall outlet. Next is to make RF grounding of al your radio equipment,- make ground wires out of insulated cupper leads at least 4 to 6 square millimeters. These grounding wires should be used to ground all your equipment together, Radio - Amplifiers - Tuner - Antenna switch a.s.o. to a single point,- this point should then be grounded to a sufficent grounding point,- this might be an water radiator,- water-pipe or a grounding rood outside your house. NOTE! If you about to make an lightning arrest system at this time,- you MUST connect your RF-Grounding to the same point to avoid differences in ground conduction. Additional At this time you might also install some static-arrests to your Antenna cable. A static arrest is a 'Static grounding device' installed to protect your radio against damaging static discharges. It work with 'spikes' and an 'tuned air gap' witch allowe static electricity to be discharged to ground. The static-arrests is preferably placed on your antenna cable outside the building. (Before going true wall) ONE Grounding point!. If you have a previous grounding point, maby only for RF-Grounding you MUST at these time make an connection to this also. AL GROUNDING MUST END UP TO THE SAME POINT TO AVOID DIFFERENCES IN GROUND CONDUCTING! By doing so i avoid getting the HUGE power from an actual Lightning Stroke inside my house,- it al stays outside the building,- Thats the idea but consider this also! NEVER count any grounding as 'bullet proof' so the recommendation stands: IN CASE OF INCOMING THUNDER STORM - ALWAYS DISCONNECT ANTENNA CABLE AND POWER - CORD!! This is done preferably at the static-arrests outside your house,- disconnect the side that goes in to your radio set, doing this leave the static-arrests still connected to the antenna and the radio safely disconnected. These is some 'suggestions' when planing the whole grounding system. If your about to make both RF-Grounding and a lightning arrests system,- you MUST connect them to the same grounding point. Sufficient ground for RF-Grounding and static-arrests is obtained from a water-pipe o.e. However you MUST make a proper ground conductor for the lightning arrests system, the water-pipe will not do! Usage of it for this purpose is even DANGEROUS! RF-Grounding point. At this central grounding point, i connected the Ground-Conductor to a screw-terminal, this makes the connections to Radio Ground-Wire (Going inside the house) and The Grounding of the static-arrests werry easy. Cupper-wire on the Left side is connected to the the Ground-Conductor. Black wire on the right side, Is the Radio grounding wire, going inside the house and is connected to the Radio-set. Se page 4. Yellow/Green wires going up to the static-arrests on coaxial-cable. Se page 4. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 *** End of page *** Back to Start page.