" Tuuk" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a big self supporting tower in the yard, it is grounded by
grounding rods and of course itself. I am attaching two satelite dishes to
the tower. The most practical way is using 2x4 wood, this will work great
just screwing them to the wood and it will squeeze itself to the brackets
and support nicely. I am wondering about the connection to the tower
because there will not be grounded to the tower. There wont be any
connection (metal to metal) form the satelite dish and the tower, that
leads me to believe that the only grounding would be the shielded cable
which gets grounded to the nice new 50" plazma.

My question is should i ground that? Should the satelite dish itself be
grounded to the tower? Is there any reason for this? Safety wise or
interference wise? It would be very simple to do, but not sure if I should
or want to. Please give me advice as to either ground the dish to tower or
not to. Does anyone think there will be issues? Should I or shouldn't I?

Thanks for any advice.


Thre can never be too much grounding when it comes to lightning. You want
to bond everything together. That way any near by discharges gets grounded
and all the equipment goes up and down with the dishcharge at the same time.
Voltage does not hirt the equipment ,it is just the differance in the
voltages that does.

I think I would ground the dishes/coax to the tower and then atleast once
more just before it comes into the house. Grounding at the bottom of the
tower would also be good if the coax goes all the way to the ground.