Ham Radio Sheet Metal Ground

Many hams actually have to bridge each joint with short jumper wires and sheet metal screws to stop the rf noise particularly if near a commercial broadcast transmitter.

Ham radio sheet metal ground.

Package of 25 self drilling sheet metal screws for mounting morgan arrestors to copper or aluminum sheet. Tinned copper ground braid 1 2 wide and 3 4 wide. That s only 05 wavelengths at 30 mhz which is a tiny ground plane. Zip wire primary wire.

World s largest supplier of amateur radio ham radio and communication equipment. A cookie or pizza sheet works fine as a ground plane for a 70cm or even 2m vertical but it s a very small ground plane on 10m or lower bands. This is called a ground loop. Antenna wire build your own antenna components.

The device is intended for long grounding wires. Slots on bottom for copper strap to enter and ground copper sheet. Sales supplies and service. The grounding device utilizes a coaxial line where the ground wire is enclosed by a shield such as rg 8 transmission line to prevent the buildup of high voltage standing wave near the station equipment.

Avoid paying top dollar by finding a surplus metals dealer and poking around. Tower and antenna books. Ham gear usually has a ground terminal just for this purpose. Second running the wire that close to metal is probably gonna make it act more like transmission line than antenna.

Exothermic ground rod welding materials. Copper strap is sold at hardware and roofing stores as flashing. Bonded to house ground if distant from house it should not be bonded to house ground coax shield will provide inductive connection so most lightning current will go to tower grounds distant 200 ft cable run from base to house. President oro valley amateur radio club.

Cable management wall entry devices. For a mobile installation the best location for any vertical antenna is going to be in the middle of the most automotive sheet metal and as high as possible. A very large pizza sheet might be around a meter in diameter or iow 50cm in radius. Then connect the bonding strap or pipe to your ac safety ground rod with a heavy wire.

With any radio most vertical antennas need a large metal ground plane called the counterpoise.