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Greetings all.
So I have a new home.... The 'logical' place for my HDTV antenna is on the chimney since this gives me the highest and best line of sight. Unfortunately I have no gables on roof ANYWHERE. So I would have to run the wire straight into the attic from the mount. Which by reading in threads is a big no no to run my ground through the attic. So my alternatives are run the wires straight down over the singles (Ugly and won't last) or I can do a mast on the side of the house where the grounding rod is located.
My question to all is. Is it really that big of an issue to run my ground THROUGH the attic and then out a soffit to the grounding rod? I mean the primary focus of the ground is really to bleed off static no? If lightning strikes your antenna.. is that 6 guage wire really gonna help your house?
So I have a new home.... The 'logical' place for my HDTV antenna is on the chimney since this gives me the highest and best line of sight. Unfortunately I have no gables on roof ANYWHERE. So I would have to run the wire straight into the attic from the mount. Which by reading in threads is a big no no to run my ground through the attic. So my alternatives are run the wires straight down over the singles (Ugly and won't last) or I can do a mast on the side of the house where the grounding rod is located.
My question to all is. Is it really that big of an issue to run my ground THROUGH the attic and then out a soffit to the grounding rod? I mean the primary focus of the ground is really to bleed off static no? If lightning strikes your antenna.. is that 6 guage wire really gonna help your house?