Re: RF grounding without rod pounding?

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Original poster: "Bill Parn by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <parn-at-starpower-dot-net>

I have heard pouring salt around you ground rod and watering it will
sometimes
help it, at a minimum water it well.

 I am wondering if connecting your RF ground to the main water pipe might
shake your neighbors house wiring if someone else has used that pipe as
ground.

I try to keep the rf ground out my house wiring, I used to have some
crackling in
wall outlets before I switched over to a seperate independent ground on the
high
frequency, high voltage side of the TC.  I have a secondary ground,
independent
of the GFI ground as well as the house ground.  I liked the fact that I had
some
resistance between the grounds.  That way less current would flow between
them.

Cheers,
BP


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Subject: RE: RF grounding without rod pounding?


> Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Garry-at-NDFC-dot-com>
>
> I have gotta get my ham license renewed soon, but I remember reading in a
> ham publication about grounding ham game and it spoke about possible
> resonation with a grounding wire that length that was just right to
resonate
> with the fundamental or harmonic frequencies of a ham radio. I assume the
> same could happen with a TC where the grounding wire acts like an antenna
> radiating RF. I remember the article spoke of making a grounding wire out
of
> coax where there was a capacitor at each end that was accross the center
> wire and the shielding. I think it was a 5kv cap at about 500uF or
> something. I know the value for the cap might need to be very much higher
to
> handle the voltages from a TC but I am not sure.
>
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> Subject: Re: RF grounding without rod pounding?
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> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> Where I live ground rods are just about worthless.  I managed to get
> 4
> eight foot rods in the ground, and found afterwords that the resistance
> between rods is about 600 ohms!  Good connection to the 100+ feet of 2"
> copper feeder line from the water meter at the street worked MUCH
> better.
>
> Ed
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