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Segment 1 (Deep Dive)

Ground and Bonding for the Radio Amateur

With Russ’ new project that he will fill us in on, we started to discuss grounding needs and we felt this would make for a great deep dive.

Interview with Ward Silver, N0AX

Licensed since 1972, Ward is the author of several books including the Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur, Ham Radio for Dummies,Two-Way Radios and Scanners for Dummies, *Circuitbuilding for Dummies,*three *ARRL License Study Guides (also the editor)and a novelette entitledZone of Iniquity.*Ward also served as the lead editor for the ARRL Handbook and ARRL Antenna Book, and served as editor for the ARRL Contest Update and ARRL Contest Coral.  Ward has also been awarded the “Amateur of Year” award from the Dayton Hamvention and was inducted into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame. We could go on and on about Ward because he has made many contributions to Amateur Radio, but let’s say hello and welcome to the podcast to Ward Silver, N0AX.

Resources

Myth of the RF Ground - https://lhs.fyi/wp

ARRL Handbook 2022 Softcover- https://lhs.fyi/wm

ARRL Antenna Book 24th Edition - https://lhs.fyi/wn

Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur 2nd Edition (N0AX Ward Silver) - https://lhs.fyi/wo

Lightning Protection Series on 2002 QST by Ron Block, KB2UYT - https://lhs.fyi/wk

Segment 2 (Announcements & Feedback)

E-mail from Serge, ON4AA

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