[Lowfer] grounding active antennas

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

to iterate a bit on Steve
location is all
I had a probe located alongside the house and it sounded like an open
mike
lead. The antenna had been mounted and grounded to a steel mast
with a bit of pipe stuck into the ground at the base of the mast and the
mast tied to that
things quieted down to my normal horrible hash from the York Hospital. So
tie the antenna
ground to the mast and ground that,,, should get you a big improvement 
all other isolation that you do from then will help as well,,,, in my
case it didnt take much
of a ground stake at the antenna base, ,,, perhaos a foot or so

Bob K3DJC



 
> It is usually recommended to ground the coax coming down 
> from the e-probe as soon as it hits dirt;  this can do a 
> huge amount for reducing the feeder-borne noise, shunting it 
> to ground before it hits the antenna system, and is the 
> first thing to try.  Better the ground the better  - 
> electrical service grounding rod, or copper pipe hammered in 
> are good.  It isn't necessary to run a separate ground wire 
> up to the e-probe  -  using the coax outer is superior in a 
> couple of respects.