[Elecraft] best grounding technique

[Wes]

Interesting.  I don't have (and probably won't buy) the book, but here we have a 
disconnect---no pun intended.

If Rick's comment is accurate, and I have no reason to think otherwise, then 
what it states is in direct conflict with what one co-author (K9YC) has preached 
for years, that each box should connect to the next and there is only one 
connected to the ground system.  He even calls it madness to use individual 
connections to a common ground bus.

This pretty much sums up why I'm not in the market for the book.

Wes  N7WS


On 3/19/2021 2:44 PM, Rick NK7I wrote:
> The ARRL book on Grounding and Bonding is very clear.  Each piece of gear has 
> its OWN wire/strap to a common grounding point (a copper pipe mounted on a 
> wall is a common method, that being connected to the system ground; everything 
> to the building safety ground, more ground rods every 2x the depth of the rod).
>
> Look at it this way, say a discharge comes in through your antenna, into the 
> radio, connected to your computer and other devices.  Would you prefer that 
> energy goes only through the radio to ground (losing the radio) or in a series 
> through everything else in the shack too?  The 'fan' mode you mention is 
> preferred, give that energy EVERY chance to seek ground BEFORE it passes 
> through your gear.
>
> Energy shunts (PolyPhase devises for example) at the antenna entry point are 
> another must.  One per feed.
>
> I suggest reading that book, several times (it's complex) for a better 
> understanding.
>
> 73,
> Rick NK7I
>
> On 3/19/2021 2:06 PM, Robert G Strickland via Elecraft wrote:
>> It seems that there are two ways of running grounding wires in the shack: FAN 
>> - from a common ground point, individual grounding wires are run to each 
>> piece of equipment; LINKING - a ground wire is run from each piece of 
>> equipment to the next and eventually ending in a common ground point. What's 
>> the group wisdom on the relative merits of these two approaches to running 
>> grounds in the shack?
>> ...robert