Schoenbach
New member
- Location
- Michigan, USA
Hello, Some amateur radio operators use an RF, radio frequency, ground. It is sometimes a thin copper strip, or a round copper pipe. out to a ground rod behind the house. These have less impedance at radio frequencies that a round copper ground wire. Often the ground rod is near the amateur radio receiver and transmitter. At my station the ground rod is near my utility service entrance , so I was able to connect the two ground rods together. My question is, would it be allowable to add an RF, radio frequency , ground to the circuit breaker panel for the house - out to the ground rod for the breaker panel ? This would be in addition to the copper ground wire. Often noise is heard on the amateur radio receiver caused by various things.Some are inside the house, while often it is something outside the house in the utility system, a street light, a wet insulator, or something in a neighbors house. I have been thinking that a RF ground at the house panel might help ground out some of this noise. Sometimes the noise covers up the weaker distant signals, so if there is less noise a person can hear more stations. Schoenbach, WB8FEC.