How do I ground this antenna?
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The K 30 has a magnetic base, no additional grounding needed as long as it is placed on a metal (steel) surface.
727605
Hook up your coax to your antenna and seal around with heat shrink tubing or that new seal tape that is out..Ground pole two foot in ground with ground rod if you can with a 8 foot rebar.If no Copper rod is available.If you can not go down that far due to rocks or bolder under ground. I put in a 5 ft copper rod than tied in a #4 grounding wire 5ft out at a foot deep pointing away from the house due to I had a huge bolder under ground. Hope you can go straight down. Use a electric hammer from a tool rental place or a friends. Will make life a lot easier.Antenna grounds to metal of pole.Does not need to be grounded for this antenna..Mine has been fine for months. Take your time and do it right the first time. If you can get the base of antenna up minumum 20'. 40' would be ideal.Remember to guy line tie your pole 20' and above.Use a proper antenna mast. I have a telescoping mast from channel master. Check Amazon. Cheap poles will cause havoc if you have bad weather.Do not over tighten your radials "ground plane" or antenna pierces. Snug with lock washers.No lock tight.If you are afraid they will come loose than tape around connected antennas.Well good luck. Ham operator. 73s
482275
I can tune this antenna from 10 to 20 meters and have done well DX'ing. You really need a good ground to work good DX. Put a rod into the ground and connect it to the mounting plate. That will help. There is also a radial attachment you can add on. Good luck. It is a GREAT antenna!.
686602
First you may not have a good ground. If you do then I would move the antenna mast up or down about 1/4 inch and then re-try. If worse then go the other way......
1895071
There is a way to ground it, but you must do it through a separate amp. Hope this helps!
1831650
sometimes they will not connect the ground to the switch but only to the box. On older houses they sometimes wrapped the ground around the incoming cables and locked it down under the holding clamp. if either of these is the case you can connect the ground wire from the switch to the box itself and it will be grounded. these switches have electronic components which may not work as well if not grounded in some capacity. also make sure the antenna is stretched out as much as possible. I fed the wire down thru a hole in the bottom of the box so it would hang out fully.
2108975
No grounding is needed. All you do is hook up the coaxial cable and the power source can be close to your TV.
1936634
Sounds like you have a short in the antenna wire. Check for continuity between the center wire and the ground shielding on the antenna wire. Most likely if shorted the problem is in the connector where it connects to the radio. Also try a different antenna & wire.
912308
Correction...my mistake . It takes does not have a ground wire. It grounds itself when bolted to the car. In my case, I have a fiberglass body so I had to run a ground wire to the bolt. All in all easy install, and for those who claimed bad reception probably should check their power connection. This thing is awsome!!
606119
This can be done. It is similar to the use I did. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the performance and I feel that it would work much better if I had placed it higher or outside. My desire was to get an HD channel and I found it not much better than the dipole I had previously used.
1364913
You need to pull the plastic plug off the bottom of antenna and the plastic cap off the metal adapter at the end of the wire. After drilling hole for antenna to go thru, you then take the nut off and slide the bottom of antenna thru the hole you drilled and thru the wire hole and screw back on nut. then put the plastic cap back on the wire end to cover metal. You're done!
1880068
cable still needs to be grounded, outside of cable plug (gold plated part) acts as ground
1429824
Hi Melvin,,, here is another site that may help you with the correct type adaptor plug for grounding. Check this out: www.geoharmony.co.uk
612473
There is no ground wire connection but I just unscrewed one of the cover screws to connect the ground screw, hum problem gone.
758635
The antenna on to is the only connection , use an adapter to connect to your coax. This should achieve what your looking to do.
966237
If you installation is good - good coax and connectors, I would say there is nothing you can do, other than raise it higher off the ground. I sent mine back.
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Yes the link Val posted is correct. You can find a grounding block at lowes, Menards, .... here. CableWholesale Single, 2.5GHz F-Pin (Coax) Grounding Block (200-278) What you do is connect the RG6 cable to it run a copper wire to it then to a ground point. Some examples of grounds would be metal gas piping on outide of house (you can buy a pipe clamp to connect dont drill into pipe), grounding rod, or copper water lines to name a few.Also make sure you have your tv connected to a surge protector power strip that is UL rated. Yes the link Val posted is correct. You can find a grounding block at lowes, Menards, .... here. CableWholesale Single, 2.5GHz F-Pin (Coax) Grounding Block (200-278) What you do is connect the RG6 cable to it run a copper wire to it then to a ground point. Some examples of grounds would be metal gas piping on outide of house (you can buy a pipe clamp to connect dont drill into pipe), grounding rod, or copper water lines to name a few.Also make sure you have your tv connected to a surge protector power strip that is... » Read More Yes the link Val posted is correct. You can find a grounding block at lowes, Menards, .... here. CableWholesale Single, 2.5GHz F-Pin (Coax) Grounding Block (200-278) What you do is connect the RG6 cable to it run a copper wire to it then to a ground point. Some examples of grounds would be metal gas piping on outide of house (you can buy a pipe clamp to connect dont drill into pipe), grounding rod, or copper water lines to name a few.Also make sure you have your tv connected to a surge protector power strip that is UL rated. « Show Less