[mythtv-users] Reconnecting an old antenna

Marc Sherman msherman at projectile.ca
Sat Dec 22 21:26:21 UTC 2007


Meatwad wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. Grounding rods are generally available in 5/8 and 1/2 inch 
> diameters either 8 or 10 feet long. Maybe it's just the region I'm in 
> (Chicago suburbs) but the soil/earth conductivity conditions here call 
> for a minimum of seven feet. If I can't drive it that far, I'll abandon 
> it a send another down.

I'm in Toronto. I'm probably looking at needing something even deeper. :/

That's way more effort than I was looking at putting into this. I guess 
it was naive of me to think that the tower itself was already adequately 
grounded since it already has an antenna on it.

- Marc


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