[Elecraft] Ground Strap

[George, W5YR]

Look at dealers who handle craft supplies and sell copper sheet of various
widths in rolls. You will probably have to piece together several pieces to
make the entire run.
Also building supply houses might carry small rolls.

From an engineering viewpoint, the distributed equipment ground that you
describe is not as good as the "star" ground system in which a separate
conductor runs from each piece of equipment to a central "ground" point.
Sounds like your layout would not permit this, however.

The piece of gear at "the far end" can be at some r-f, a-c and audio
potential above the piece nearest the actual "ground" connection with the
serial layout you want to use. This largely tends to defeat the use of a
station ground arrangement in which you want the chassis, etc. of all
pieces of gear to be at the same potential.

73/72, George    
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
K2 #489      Icom IC-765 #2349     Icom IC-756 PRO  #2121


pjhend@ameritech.net wrote:
> 
> George,
> I will not be running all that far to ground, I need the length to connect
> roughly 27 linear feet of radios.  I'm planning to hop from one radio to the
> next with ground strap (flattened, soldered, and then the hole drilled through
> the strap for the ground lug). From there, it's on to the cold water pipe and
> earth ground only 8' away. Thus, at minimum, I'll need 35'.
> 73
> Paul