My tower grounds are my house grounds. All hardline is separately grounded though individual rods and tied to the house ground. My transceiver is tied to the house ground.
I seriously doubt tying other equipment to that ground will reduce noise levels at all, not to speak of the difficulty of trying to tie my laptop to same. I operate primarily 6 meters. To confirm this, I have recently used a portable spectrum analyzer with a near field antenna to look for noise sources in the house. Not only does my equipment produce no noise, nothing else in the house does either. John WA1EAZ > On Apr 24, 2020, at 2:18 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I <[email protected]> wrote: > > And in the meantime, lightning protection helps to reduce the noise and risks > of 'everyday' static noise sources like wind, snow, blowing dust and even > rain static. HELPS, not removes. > > Having (last fall) just installed a basic dissipation system, the difference > can be quite startling and can allow one to hear a LOT better. My noise > floor also dropped from 10-35 dB with an average of 20 dB the moment I tied > it into the existing house safety grounds. And that was not only increased > safety but was cheaper than most low band reception arrays (which I'll add as > well). 'New' DX; SCORE! > > Just as any other station feature, one can continue to enhance or upgrade > lightning protection and bonding over time until there is less return than > cost expended. > > One more often forgotten note: ALL wiring coming into a building, must be > bonded to the common safety ground; satellite dishes, telephone/DSL wires, > cable TV... ALL of them or lightning will 'find a way' to ruin your day. > > Rick NK7I > > > On 4/23/2020 10:44 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote: >> Serious lightning protection is something else, and can be very expensive. >> But although bonding the equipment won’t protect you against direct >> lightning strikes, it does help to keep everything at the same potential and >> reduce the possibility of damage from less violent static discharges. >> >> Victor 4X6GP >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
