Hello and HELP,
I am a member of a amateur radio club and we have a slight problem. We want to install a 5' satellite antenna on top of a 11 story older brick building. The owners of the building (University of Florida) want us to ground this dish to the building lighning rod system and not to a ground discribed in nec 250 (I have only seen 250 and what I can find in this site) we do not have a copy of the 2002 NEC.
I fear of using this lightning rod system:
it is an older system and does not look like it is bonded back to power, even if it was the bond would be more then likly at ground level or below and our dish would get zapped long before the lightning would get to ground..
If this system is not bonded back, that our satellite system would become the bonding link to the power ground and again zap some very expensive donated equipment!
Could someone please quote us the codes and procedure that would be required to grounding this antenna.
situation:
5' Aluminum satellite antenna
Wall mounted into brick
building 11 stories tall
other side of wall antenna being mounted on, all kinds of electrical panels that could be used for the ground.
coax cable to go down 3 floors,approx 200'of rg 6 coax
73 and thanks in advance
feel free to email direct to bradtyler(nospam)@aol.com remove no spam for correct address
I am a member of a amateur radio club and we have a slight problem. We want to install a 5' satellite antenna on top of a 11 story older brick building. The owners of the building (University of Florida) want us to ground this dish to the building lighning rod system and not to a ground discribed in nec 250 (I have only seen 250 and what I can find in this site) we do not have a copy of the 2002 NEC.
I fear of using this lightning rod system:
it is an older system and does not look like it is bonded back to power, even if it was the bond would be more then likly at ground level or below and our dish would get zapped long before the lightning would get to ground..
If this system is not bonded back, that our satellite system would become the bonding link to the power ground and again zap some very expensive donated equipment!
Could someone please quote us the codes and procedure that would be required to grounding this antenna.
situation:
5' Aluminum satellite antenna
Wall mounted into brick
building 11 stories tall
other side of wall antenna being mounted on, all kinds of electrical panels that could be used for the ground.
coax cable to go down 3 floors,approx 200'of rg 6 coax
73 and thanks in advance
feel free to email direct to bradtyler(nospam)@aol.com remove no spam for correct address