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They are three separate things. You have a ground for RF, a ground for lightning and a ground for electrical safety. You do not mix those things otherwise you can end up with RF on the mains electrics getting into all the household gadgets or you can end up with everything in the house getting a blast in the event of a lightning strike or if you connect that little earth tab onto a ground wire which is also connected to the electrical safety ground you can end up with full AC mains voltage on the cases of your radio gear if you get a fault on an appliance in the house.

When Amateurs and CBers talk about a station ground they're invariably talking about piling a ground rod into the ground and connecting it via braid/wire/copper bus bar to the earth tabs on their radios/amps etc to act as a RF ground. That is not where you do your RF grounding, that is done at the antenna. Hence the comment about it being the lazy option.

<blockquote data-quote="M0GVZ" data-source="post: 553652" data-attributes="member: 22312">They are three separate things. You have a ground for RF, a ground for lightning and a ground for electrical safety. You do not mix those things otherwise you can end up with RF on the mains electrics getting into all the household gadgets or you can end up with everything in the house getting a blast in the event of a lightning strike or if you connect that little earth tab onto a ground wire which is also connected to the electrical safety ground you can end up with full AC mains voltage on the cases of your radio gear if you get a fault on an appliance in the house.When Amateurs and CBers talk about a station ground they&#039;re invariably talking about piling a ground rod into the ground and connecting it via braid/wire/copper bus bar to the earth tabs on their radios/amps etc to act as a RF ground. That is not where you do your RF grounding, that is done at the antenna. Hence the comment about it being the lazy option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M0GVZ, post: 553652, member: 22312"] They are three separate things. You have a ground for RF, a ground for lightning and a ground for electrical safety. You do not mix those things otherwise you can end up with RF on the mains electrics getting into all the household gadgets or you can end up with everything in the house getting a blast in the event of a lightning strike or if you connect that little earth tab onto a ground wire which is also connected to the electrical safety ground you can end up with full AC mains voltage on the cases of your radio gear if you get a fault on an appliance in the house. When Amateurs and CBers talk about a station ground they're invariably talking about piling a ground rod into the ground and connecting it via braid/wire/copper bus bar to the earth tabs on their radios/amps etc to act as a RF ground. That is not where you do your RF grounding, that is done at the antenna. Hence the comment about it being the lazy option. [/QUOTE]

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