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KD8NNU

UFER Ground In House

l the talk about grounding had me looking at my house to figure out how
I was going to tie my antenna grounding together with the house ground
correctly.

I was not able to find an external ground rod and was confused until
someone mentioned the UFER Ground.

So my question is can anyone point me in the proper direction on how to
tie this all together.

Thanks

Don
KD8NNU

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Byron Servies

Re: UFER Ground In House

Hi,

I am currently installing a new ground system and when I had an
electrician out to talk about my plans, he thought it would be best to
connect a wire to one of the available ports in the service panel
ground bus rather than connected it to my UFER ground. On my panel,
this bus is covered by the metal of the panel itself, all of which
needed to be removed to inspect possible connection points.

As mentioned in the 2010 ARRL Handbook, this connection should be done
by a licensed electrician, probably because everything needs to be
open and the utility company feed exposed when this work is done.
Still, it is advice I plan on following as I finish up in the next few
weeks.

Also note that there should be an inspection port somewhere (for
new-ish construction. My place is in CA and built in 1992) where the
inspector can view the UFER connection; mine is very near the service
panel on the inside of the garage covered with a blank single gang
outlet panel.

Odd note: my UFER ground must have been insufficient because there are
2 lengths of rebar bent near each other and clamped together. My
electrician said he had never seen 2 used before.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:02 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> l the talk about grounding had me looking at my house to figure out how
> I was going to tie my antenna grounding together with the house ground
> correctly.
>
> I was not able to find an external ground rod and was confused until
> someone mentioned the UFER Ground.
>
> So my question is can anyone point me in the proper direction on how to
> tie this all together.

--
73, Byron N6NUL
----
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- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
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On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Byron Servies wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently installing a new ground system and when I had an
> electrician out to talk about my plans, he thought it would be best to
> connect a wire to one of the available ports in the service panel
> ground bus rather than connected it to my UFER ground. On my panel,
> this bus is covered by the metal of the panel itself, all of which
> needed to be removed to inspect possible connection points.
>
> As mentioned in the 2010 ARRL Handbook, this connection should be done
> by a licensed electrician, probably because everything needs to be
> open and the utility company feed exposed when this work is done.
> Still, it is advice I plan on following as I finish up in the next few
> weeks.
>
> Also note that there should be an inspection port somewhere (for
> new-ish construction. My place is in CA and built in 1992) where the
> inspector can view the UFER connection; mine is very near the service
> panel on the inside of the garage covered with a blank single gang
> outlet panel.
>
> Odd note: my UFER ground must have been insufficient because there are
> 2 lengths of rebar bent near each other and clamped together. My
> electrician said he had never seen 2 used before.
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:02 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> l the talk about grounding had me looking at my house to figure out how
>> I was going to tie my antenna grounding together with the house ground
>> correctly.
>>
>> I was not able to find an external ground rod and was confused until
>> someone mentioned the UFER Ground.
>>
>> So my question is can anyone point me in the proper direction on how to
>> tie this all together.
>
>
> --
> 73, Byron N6NUL
> ----
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
> - www.cqp.org
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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: UFER Ground In House

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On 4/8/2011 11:02 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

> l the talk about grounding had me looking at my house to figure out how
> I was going to tie my antenna grounding together with the house ground
> correctly.
>
> I was not able to find an external ground rod and was confused until
> someone mentioned the UFER Ground.
>
> So my question is can anyone point me in the proper direction on how to
> tie this all together.
>
> Thanks
>
> Don
> KD8NNU
>
>
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