You want a short as ground as possible so I wouldn't run it through the attic.
I would run it alongside the house to the other side. Use plastic screw down
clips to hold it off the ground or bury it up against the house. In
telecommunications and broadcast sites, there's often a ring around the
building outside that's buried, either of a big 00 copper wire or a 4-in copper
strap with various ground rods spaced at about 4 ft each and exothermically
welded to the ring or silver soldered. Of course for home use I don't think
you're going to have to need that. I would just make sure that the ground wire
you have runs as straight as possible from the electrical ground rod to where
your shack is and make your curves very wide, not tight.
Hope that helps.
Chris WB5ITTTrustee W5APXWRXZ789 GMRSSociety of Broadcast Engineers Vice
Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA
On Friday, February 6, 2026 at 05:26:42 PM CST, RollingRob via BVARC
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Allen, Robert here, a newbie still waiting to get on the air. I have my
radio, power supply, antenna analyzer, various antennas. What I’m waiting on is
to get my house ground from electrical panel over to the other side of my house
to where my shack room is at.
I hired help for this since I’m in a wheelchair but I just need to ask you if
this insulated copper cable will work to bring one ground rod connection to the
other through the attic. From there I will have connection box with copper bar
and insulator protection glass fused and then into my home.
If you don’t know, might you know someone I could ask?
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Robert Garza
713.299.8028KJ5NOR
On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM Allen Brier via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote:
Reminder: This coming weekend (starting at 0001 UTC tonight) is the 2026 Winter
SSB QSO Party. If you plan on operating in this event, now is the time to make
sure that your equipment is functional to include whatever logging software you
plan on using.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected] or text me
at 713-705-4801. I’ll check those occasionally throughout the weekend.
I have the call history file for N1MM+ if you want to use that.
We’ll be holding a special local net at 8pm on 28.488 both Friday and Saturday
night for locals to work each other if they haven’t already. I’ll be net
control.
Rules: https://www.ten-ten.org/qso-party-rules/
Handbook: https://www.ten-ten.org/qso-party-handbook/
N1MM+ UDC (User Defined Contest) file:
https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/mmfiles/tenten-zip/
N1MM+ Call History File: https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/mmfiles/1010rtty-017-txt/
Band conditions are pretty good right now so this could be a really fun
contest. I’m of course going for 1st place again.
73, Allen #4530 Life Member
73/161,
Allen R. Brier N5XZ
1515 Windloch Lane
Richmond, TX 77406 USA
713-705-4801
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