Ham Radio Sheet Metal Ground

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Ham radio sheet metal ground. Then connect the bonding strap or pipe to your ac safety ground rod with a heavy wire. Bonded to house ground if distant from house it should not be bonded to house ground coax shield will provide inductive connection so most lightning current will go to tower grounds distant 200 ft cable run from base to house. The grounding device utilizes a coaxial line where the ground wire is enclosed by a shield such as rg 8 transmission line to prevent the buildup of high voltage standing wave near the station equipment. Antenna wire build your own antenna components.

Tinned copper ground braid 1 2 wide and 3 4 wide. Copper strap is sold at hardware and roofing stores as flashing. A cookie or pizza sheet works fine as a ground plane for a 70cm or even 2m vertical but it s a very small ground plane on 10m or lower bands. Second running the wire that close to metal is probably gonna make it act more like transmission line than antenna.

That s only 05 wavelengths at 30 mhz which is a tiny ground plane. Package of 25 self drilling sheet metal screws for mounting morgan arrestors to copper or aluminum sheet. Ham gear usually has a ground terminal just for this purpose. Many hams actually have to bridge each joint with short jumper wires and sheet metal screws to stop the rf noise particularly if near a commercial broadcast transmitter.

For a mobile installation the best location for any vertical antenna is going to be in the middle of the most automotive sheet metal and as high as possible. Safety stand tower platform. Exothermic ground rod welding materials. Zip wire primary wire.

World s largest supplier of amateur radio ham radio and communication equipment. President oro valley amateur radio club. Cable management wall entry devices. With any radio most vertical antennas need a large metal ground plane called the counterpoise.

Tower and antenna books. The device is intended for long grounding wires. If an external device is connected to the mic jack and that external device grounds the mic shield back to the station ground or power mains safety ground it will introduce hum into the audio. This is called a ground loop.

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